Hey, I gotta idea. The ocean covers up stuff we want to see. So, let's just boil off the ocean. Why, oh why, doesn't high-end project management training inclu

Hey, I gotta idea. The ocean covers up stuff we want to see. So, let's just boil off the ocean. Why, oh why, doesn't high-end project management training include case studies of mission-critical systems in large long-lived organizations? Large === hundreds of thousands of people affected. Long-lived === centuries. I'm thinking of, for example, the signaling systems in the New York City subways. You get the idea. You can't just delete and replace a big system like that like you can a malfunctioning virtual machine at a cloud provider. You have to work with what you have. And, a decade out, you'll still have to work with what you had back then, just less of it. Any gang of $200/hr fresh-out-of-school devs can do a greenfield system. But maintenance is hard. Upgrading existing business processes without disrupting the business is hard. In health care, EPIC seems be able (mostly) to do that. Peoplesoft. We don't hear from the govt much, but Social Security seems to be doing it. What track record of successful business process upgrades do the big-four contractors have? That would be the question to ask.