My initial response is that the software industry doesn't actually do projects of that scale and with that kind of budget very often. Unless you're working at

My initial response is that the software industry doesn't actually do projects of that scale and with that kind of budget very often. Unless you're working at Google scale, what's the budget for your website project? $100k? $200k? Departmental budget of $3million a year which is 90% salaries and 10% hardware? Generally speaking, those businesses handling airplanes, submarines, skyscrapers etc are always working at that scale and everyone is prepared for that.