Hindsight 20/20? Shared Services bosses say 2020 deadline can’t be met under current parameters

'Assumptions were made, you learn, you adjust, you move forward, so that’s something our predecessors didn’t have the advantage of,' says Shared Services' John Glowacki.

Shared Services president Ron Parker, right, and chief operating officer John Glowacki say they can't get the government's IT systems transformed by 2020, as they are currently mandated to do.Photographs courtesy Shared Services Canada

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BY RACHEL AIELLO

May 9, 2016

Shared Services Canada will be unable to meet the 2020 deadline for completing its mandate of modernizing and amalgamating all of government IT without either more money or reducing the scope of its work, department executives said last week. Shared Services president Ron Parker and chief operat...

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