I'm going to go out on a limb and say that smaller project are a possible solution. Do less and deliver something. I've just gotten off two, multi-year project

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that smaller project are a possible solution. Do less and deliver something. I've just gotten off two, multi-year projects, the first crashed and burned due to a mismatch between business process, vendors and the skills in the organization to understand what it does and translate that into requirements. From the development side, we made a lot of stuff. Most of it was junk. The second project arrived at a point underdone. Unable to replace the existing production solution because of a lack of a burning deck. I'd put this down as a failure as well. Mostly on the strategic leadership side. In the meta sense these projects weren't that bad. People got money for doing them, and that money was spent in the economy. Maybe Amazon is onto something with their two pizza teams, and 7 page proposals.