"But when it comes to Phoenix, Aylward isn't focusing his blame on IBM. Like the procurement experts, he faults the scope of the initial contract for the result

"But when it comes to Phoenix, Aylward isn't focusing his blame on IBM. Like the procurement experts, he faults the scope of the initial contract for the resulting failure." Twenty-six years of developing software, I haven't worked on a project yet that was any better than 60% specified. This inability of people to specify, in full and in detail, what they want is the reason for the rise of Agile. A colleague of mine sagely said, "We need to show them something quickly just so they can tell us what they don't want."