Yes, my software development skills are long since dormant and they are not 21st century style anyway. Nonetheless, I must register my amazement at a software development project being worked on at the Agriculture Department. I'm amazed not that they have been working on this project since 2004. The lack of progress is what gets my goat; after all it's a system whose costs were originally estimated at almost half a billion dollars. The system is known as MIDAS, which stands for Modernize and Innovate the Delivery of Agricultural Systems. It is a catchy name, but when will the system go into production and how effective will it be.
It took Agriculture six years to finish the first phase of the project - program planning. They have yet to define all of the requirements and don't expect to do so for another four months. MIDAS will integrate thirty-seven existing systems; however, they do not have representatives from all of these systems as part of the planning and requirements group. The GAO also has several comments about the poor quality of the management of this project.
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