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"200+ person project" being contracted. I can't imagine any successful big software (assuming) projects like this not done in-house. Anyone seen any?

• NikolaNovak 4y ago
  It's on one side of the bell curve but still a reasonably common size in ERP space. Not all of those projects are successful, but not all of them are failures either. (FWIW, my 2 cents - ERP project can succeed or fail on many key levers, including the approach (are we taking it as the business-transformation project that it is, or trying to treat it as a simple IT project); having a suitable client champion and involved/engaged/competent client team; clear goals, priorities and business requirements; explicit responsibilities and deliverables; and of course the competence & experience of the implementation/system integrator - not just on the development side, but on the functional, business transformation, project management, and most important client relationship management side.)
• giantg2 4y ago
  Oh yeah. The product I worked on in the past went this way. We had a mature product that I said we probably needed to rewrite and modernize to handle any additional increase in volume or integrations with other systems. I left the team due to mostly politics. A year later, half my old subdivision was laid off and the project went to a contractor. Funny enough, they're about 2 years behind schedule. At least they took my advice about modernizing...