Flutterby™! : Firehose of waste

Holyrood: A firehose of waste, nominally about the U.K, but a good reminder that we don't really have software development as a contracting thing down:

Take into account the evidence regarding large systems development, there is substantial research that proves the folly of large scale IT developments: “The success rate varied dramatically by total project budget: at less than US $750000 the success rate was 55 per cent; with budgets over $10 million, no project was successful” (SIMPL/NZIER 2000). “There is little evidence that consultants, IT companies, and public agencies, or many practitioners and academics, have learned one of the key lessons of IS failure – that large and ambitious projects should be treated with great caution or avoided altogether.” (Dangerous Enthusiasms 2006)