Rafael Lazimy, a UW- Madison business professor who specializes in the development of IT systems, said sometimes canceling a project is the right call, for instance if the need for an application is no longer as great.
But when several projects are being canceled for technical or cost issues, it calls for investigating whether it was the result of poor planning, Lazimy said.
So far, oversight of troubled state projects has been uneven. An internal audit released this month showed that the UW Board of Regents wasn’t notified about setbacks in the $28.4 million project for the payroll and benefits system until it was scrapped.