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• satysin 10y ago
  Feature creep, "technical managers" who promised close-to-impossible functionality in totally impossible time frames. So many teams developing in isolation on loosely defined specs so nothing worked as it was assumed then when it was "fixed" it broke it for another team, etc. Higher ups making decisions on what stack to use based on who bought them nicest lunch or some other "bribe" so nothing worked together without a shit load of extra work, then obviously the price went up when they needed to purchase more for phase++ as none of the higher ups had any kind of negotiating or technical architecture experience. Essentially it came down to too many people in too many isolated teams who were led by people that would struggle to do IT for a small Windows-only business. At the time I used to say that the people running the project would get nine women pregnant in the hope of having a baby in a month. I would hope the problem with that is obvious but you would be shocked at how many people thought it was actually a good idea!