Comments on: Consultant: shut down CALPADS now

By: Blow Hard

Blow Hard — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 15:47:47 +0000

Over-commit and understaff: this is IBM’s Global Services business model

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By: Governor deletes money for CALPADS from budget | Thoughts on Public Education

Mon, 11 Oct 2010 07:50:24 +0000

[...] while ordering a shakedown of the system. A scathing consultant’s report, which I wrote about here, criticized the performance of IBM’s team, the Department’s management, software defects, and [...]

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By: G.Smith

G.Smith — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 05:35:08 +0000

I actually find the support from CSIS on CALPADS to be excellent. Without CSIS assistance CALPADS would be unbearable.

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By: B. Sully

B. Sully — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 05:47:56 +0000

Someone should look into the millions being spent on having CSIS support the CALPADS system. With all of the budget problems California and the education community is experiencing, taxpayers should insist on shutting down CSIS and having existing state staff support CALPADS.

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By: Eric Premack

Eric Premack — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:50:36 +0000

Perhaps it’s time to reconsider whether it even makes sense to have a massive statewide database like CALPADS–and for that matter the related CALTIDES system too.

Each of California’s 7,000+ schools and 1,000 districts has its own take on the data and the quality and interpretation of the data varies widely–often for legitimate reasons. Much of the data being fed into the system is of poor and/or inconsistent quality. As a result, the data is virtually useless for any high stakes purposes and likely never will be ready for “prime time.” Only dilettante researchers and clueless data geeks take it seriously.

Before sinking millions more into this mess, it’s time to reconsider whether an education data “Ministry of Truth” is either possible or desirable.

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By: Tim Goree

Tim Goree — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:35:45 +0000

Seems to me they have the technical oversight staff ready and waiting to be included in the conversation (CSIS staff). All CDE needs to do is to actually allow CSIS to direct IBM on the project, but CDE didn’t see fit to do that the first time around.

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By: Rusty M

Rusty M — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:48:35 +0000

More staff… Districts need more staff also.

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By: Thomas Brown

Thomas Brown — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:08:23 +0000

And now CDE has awarded the software development bid for CALTIDES (CALPADS sister system) also to IBM, knowing full well that CALPADS was in serious trouble and that there were other qualified and less expensive software vendors.

What are they thinking?

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By: Dennis C

Dennis C — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:18:07 +0000

Wow – a consultant’s report that recommends hiring more oversight staff – what a surprise!
I have been involved with state IT projects with multiple layers of oversight and all they added were redundant and duplicative costs. Success depends on basic competency of project staff.

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