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Does humanity even know how to make quality software of the size where it costs on the order of hundreds of millions?

• jaabe 7y ago
  It’s a quite interesting question. Our national tax ministry has had almost nothing of expensive scandals over the past 15 years. Two years ago they setup a focused devops team inside their organisation. I don’t know the exact details of it because my knowledge is from a 45 minute summit talk, but apparently this team managed to build a national scale system in 3 months that actually work. That would have cost them billion on the private market, and would likely never have worked, yet they did it with a relatively small team. Maybe the problem is scale. I mean, sometimes I wonder why our contract include numerous product owners, key account managers, groups business analysts, project managers and God knows what else. This is a little unrelated to buying big systems, but when we wanted to build a RPA setup, one of the consultant agencies had an offer which included 6 business side people and one technician. I mention it, because sometimes buying enterprise systems feels exactly like that.