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Anatomy of a Runaway Project

Posted by kdawson on from the off-the-tracks-and-ploughing-up-dirt dept.

JCWDenton recommends a piece by Bruce Webster revealing some insights into a failed multi-million-dollar IT project. "The following document is the actual text — carefully redacted — of a memo I wrote some time back after performing an IT project review; names and identifying concepts have been changed to preserve confidentiality (and protect the guilty). The project in question was a major IT re-engineering effort for a mission-critical system; at the time I did this review, the project had been going on for several years and had cost millions of dollars; it would eventually be canceled and the work products abandoned. The memo itself provides an interesting glimpse into just how a major IT project can go so far off the tracks that nothing useful is ever delivered."

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  1. Was the project... by RyansPrivates · · Score: -1, Troll

    ...the Firefox 3 Release?

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    If at first you don't succeed... How does that go again? Ah, forget it.
  2. You fail It by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    and/or distRibute thi8gs in