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Managing Projects
A Dismal Track Record
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afflicts small and large firms, non-profits and government s worlwide
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consequences worsening
business penalties worsening because
- large projects
- touch more part of firms
- baked into more products and services
most rigorous testing leaves half the bugs undetected
- malfunctioning products, stalled operations, failed firms, even deaths
how IT is developed failing to keep pace with its growing complexity
- handcrafted, painstakingly
- error prone: 100-150 mistakes in every thousand line of code
London Electrobus II
100 years before Telsa ...
- well engineered, 38-mile range, and ingenious battery swaps
- gas engine was not yet inevitable; competition was horse buggies
the buses are ...
- 300% over budget , 3,000-pound battery, and 30/50 never completed
- cost, quality, and schedule←flunked all three
lesson for IT projects:
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clever technology does not guarantee success
-a project must outdo its real competition←not always obvious
- electrobus: not the automobile but the horse
doomed without complements (then and now, charging stations)
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deja vu, Again
timeless lessons from projects with
- massive scale
- uncertainty
- bickering stakeholders
- railroads, the electric grid, highways, moon landings, and Hoover
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