The recently released audit about the state’s IT division showed a troubling pattern of projects going over budget and taking much longer to complete than estimated. But this Triangle Business Journal story points out a key question to keep an eye on:

The other 950 projects Woods’ auditors turned up couldn’t be included because the state’s IT database obliterates the initial estimates when newer data is entered.

Woods office doesn’t even hazzard a guess about how their findings might have changed had those hundreds of other projects been included.

“This has been an eye opener,” says Wood spokesman Bill Holmes.