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Plenty of enterprise projects fail as well, they just don't get the publicity that public ones do.

• agumonkey 5y ago
  I discussed that with someone on reddit. Indeed private sector can fail too, they share some of the reasons. People said it was also a function of size.
  • tonyedgecombe 5y ago
    Yes, the chance of success does seem inversely proportional to the size: https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.438.6899&rep=rep1&type=pdf https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.43...
    • agumonkey 5y ago
      My limited observations on the non IT side of execution was an absolute lack of care about the actual goals. - Companies would just cash in the fat check, produce "something" close enough to spec and leave profit over value - Customer higher rank has no clue about anything but paid 500M for something, so it has to be good, and anything not working is blamed on employees being stupid. - Even though agile is overblown at times, big projects inability to react to issues on the ground was a daily cause of pain for everybody in the building. Stupid bugs, random crashes, absurd ergonomics.. (to the point that pen and paper felt like sci-fi level of performance, you could even make a logistical assessment of the innate nature of handwritten document speed vs bogus IT stack) ps: thanks for the link. If you know other papers, sites about this, shoot