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+-   Anatomy of a runaway project-> on Tuesday June 17 2008, @09:34AM JCWDenton

Submitted by JCWDenton on Tuesday June 17 2008, @09:34AM
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JCWDenton writes "Bruce Webster reveals some insights into a failed multi-million 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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