Anatomy of a Runaway Project 326
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."
Re:Irony (Score:3, Funny)
This is about Vista, isn't it? (nt) (Score:5, Funny)
The FUBAR project keeps being touted as a world-class development team, but it is not producing world-class, or even minimally-professional, results. This already shows up in the project delays and quality issues of the releases to date. What the team is producing will not only be very difficult to support and modify, it will in all likelihood be unusable, resulting in a complete failure of the FUBAR project.
Sounds like Vista to me...
I get the impression (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I want names. (Score:5, Funny)
Sigh... (Score:5, Funny)
I am *so* disappointed with the actual article...
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Re:I get the impression (Score:4, Funny)
(and I actually really like Java)
Well first... (Score:3, Funny)
Then there's that person who's "kind of a big deal" and thinks the project is "fierce". That would be the senior administrator.
Oh wait. This isn't Project Runway"?
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Re:who is Bob Winsom (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Sigh... (Score:3, Funny)
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Re:except for the part about (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:And a Decent Engineer could respond (Score:3, Funny)