my name is christopher cudoll. i rise to comment on the peril of system development. first the rule of thumb for system development, projects take 3 times the estimated development time. projects cost 3 times more money than the original estimate. projects only certify 1/3 of the requirement jz 1/3 are stated. why? there is the rule of dumb. systems are comicated but orezs are not. organizations are 1/3 as intellgents of the people involved. 1/3 on a very very good day. members once having some measure of system expertise i offered to this board february 2, 2010 a comment suggesting my city and county of san francisco create a data dictionary basely list persons roles and resources pertinent to had operations mptd if you set that up all the controller would have had to do to set opnew finance system is pull out the dictionary, compare with a known set of future needs prioritize the absolutely necessary, make a list and work to it. don't change requirements. if you forgot something there is always a inevtable phase 2. finally there is the rule of numb. people are numb

my name is christopher cudoll and live at 6th and howard. i rise to the comment on what it mean tooz do a good job. what does it take for you individually and collectively to do a good job for the people of our city and county. 20 year information services contract with oracle. if you had done a good job we would be aware that oracles practice is to be entirely propryitary. oracle systemerize expensive to develop and more expensive to replace. on average they are no more useful than microsoft, ibm or business services organization nor any less useful. the serious problem lies in the 20 year term. members for you to do a good job you should give the same good advice to us as you give to yourselves. as you give to your families as good as you give to your inturns as good as you give to your investor squz you didn't. members you cannot know oracle will be in business in 20 years. you can not know what your requirements will be in 20 years and you absolutely can not know what technology will be available in 20 years. you would never advice your

my name is christopher cudoll and live at 6th and howard. i rise to the comment on what it mean tooz do a good job. what does it take for you individually and collectively to do a good job for the people of our city and county. 20 year information services contract with oracle. if you had done a good job we would be aware that oracles practice is to be entirely propryitary. oracle systemerize expensive to develop and more expensive to replace. on average they are no more useful than microsoft, ibm or business services organization nor any less useful. the serious problem lies in the 20 year term. members for you to do a good job you should give the same good advice to us as you give to yourselves. as you give to your families as good as you give to your inturns as good as you give to your investor squz you didn't. members you cannot know oracle will be in business in 20 years. you can not know what your requirements will be in 20 years and you absolutely can not know what technology will be available in 20 years. you would never advice your