A professional management team at the FBI could solve their records keeping and date sharing problems in less than a year given a non-political interference mandate.

Most of the agents are qualified to do an agents job, but just like the public school system, a good teacher does not a good school principle make and the same problem is present in the FBI. Professional managers must be hired rather than promoting from the masses.

Simple solutions for simple problems

I was only half-joking, but what I am fustrated about is that if I can do what they are trying to acomplish successfully, then why aren’t people like myself entrusted with this mission-critical software upgrade from the top to bottom? The FBI wouldn’t allow a person with no law enforcement experience to deciede how to run an investigation, so why do they allow a person with no IT and Business Management experience deciede how to run a software implementation project?

What angers me the most is that being a freelancer excludes me from making the project a success and that I’ll have to pay for it when it fails! I even have the four very attractive qualities that companies dream about:

1. I’m highly intelligent
2. I have the required skills for the job
3. I’ve never had control of a project that has failed.
4. I’m cheap! (I compensate myself with a blantant display of egotism which can be felt throughout this comment!)

Maybe the best thing of all is that if it does fail miserably, at least the FBI would have a scape-goat to pin it all on!

Then again, I can’t knock the people. Some of them are geniually smart. It’s too bad politics, oversight, abilities, and everything else stands in their way.