2/5/26

How a Payroll System Cost Billions and Got @IBM Banned

This video breaks down the Queensland Health payroll disaster, one of the worst government software failures in Australian history. What started as a plan to modernize payroll with SAP and Workbrain turned into a billion-dollar crisis driven by bad contracting, ignored defects, weak governance, and a go live pushed through under pressure.

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