http://ayende.comAyende @ RahienCopyright (C) Ayende Rahien 2004 - 2021 (c) 202660In healthcare, implementation of "Computerized Physician Order Entry" (CPOE) often causes revolts among the doctors. Personally I don't blame them, the systems are awful. Healthcare IT has a loooooong way to go. http://ayende.com/4074/system-rollout-nightmares#comment9http://ayende.com/4074/system-rollout-nightmares#comment9Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:00:44 GMTWell, I mean not needed as in the old system worked just fine. http://ayende.com/4074/system-rollout-nightmares#comment8http://ayende.com/4074/system-rollout-nightmares#comment8Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:05:23 GMTcristian : [translate.google.com/translate](http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ynet.co.il%2Farticles%2F0%2C7340%2CL-3749832%2C00.html&sl=iw&tl=en&history_state0=)http://ayende.com/4074/system-rollout-nightmares#comment7http://ayende.com/4074/system-rollout-nightmares#comment7Wed, 22 Jul 2009 03:46:43 GMTconfigurator: actually this being the government they probably chose the highest bidder ... with same results ;) http://ayende.com/4074/system-rollout-nightmares#comment6http://ayende.com/4074/system-rollout-nightmares#comment6Wed, 22 Jul 2009 03:45:08 GMTJoao: If the software was not needed, people wouldn't need to use it and wouldn't mind that it exists for no purpose. This usually happens when they choose the lowest bidders and he does exactly what he promised - cheap software that somehow does what it says it will... Usability is more often than not missing from the conditions of the bid. http://ayende.com/4074/system-rollout-nightmares#comment5http://ayende.com/4074/system-rollout-nightmares#comment5Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:14:21 GMTSomething like this happened at the LA Unified School District and a new payroll system. Ended up costing the top guy his job: [latimesblogs.latimes.com/.../lausd-payroll-f.html](http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2008/11/lausd-payroll-f.html) Typically this happens when a government wants to pay off a politically connected business (Deloitte in the case of LAUSD) and buys a contract for software that is not needed and the resulting code is not covered by any tests hahaha. public class PayrollFiascoSaga : .... http://ayende.com/4074/system-rollout-nightmares#comment4http://ayende.com/4074/system-rollout-nightmares#comment4Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:23:07 GMTTo me making software people want to use is the best part of the job (which is sometimes why programming and IT being related sucks). http://ayende.com/4074/system-rollout-nightmares#comment3http://ayende.com/4074/system-rollout-nightmares#comment3Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:59:06 GMTDang. That is pretty funny... To some extent, I am surprised this doesn't happen more. The university I went to changed email systems while I was there and the student population was not happy. People didn't stop going to class because of it(they did that on their own) but it was probably one of the poorest roll outs i have been a part of. http://ayende.com/4074/system-rollout-nightmares#comment2http://ayende.com/4074/system-rollout-nightmares#comment2Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:56:06 GMTdamn... I knew I needed to learn Hebrew... :P http://ayende.com/4074/system-rollout-nightmares#comment1http://ayende.com/4074/system-rollout-nightmares#comment1Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:14:10 GMT