Don't worry, most projects in the olden days were over budget and time too. The business normally manage to make things complicated enough to overrun the schedu

Don't worry, most projects in the olden days were over budget and time too. The business normally manage to make things complicated enough to overrun the schedule. I'm only able to go back about 30 years but Fred Brooks seemed to agree. What we don't have these days is large teams of career programmers that have worked on the same systems and technologies within the same business or industry for 10+ years, often supported by business people with the same experience. This makes us more susceptible to consultants, marketing and technology fads.