Uh, they're called failed software projects. I just googled, "big" projects have a 10% success rate, 70% fail overall, etc etc etc. Who knows what the metrics a

Uh, they're called failed software projects. I just googled, "big" projects have a 10% success rate, 70% fail overall, etc etc etc. Who knows what the metrics are, take your pick: ROI, engagement, sales/revenue, etc. The Mythical Man Month was "50%" IIRC. So... 45 years, ... no improvement? I guess the only improvement I see is companies are less ambitious and don't do large scale custom projects... unless they have to. So.... that means 40-80% of the industry is on "bullshit" projects. It probably doesn't count maintenance programming or other IT work, it's probably new software jobs, so I'd drop that by ... half? 20-50% of the industry is in bullshit jobs? Consider consulting projects, which are likely worse numbers because those are almost always "new" projects. But don't forget, there's deck chains like astronaut architect jobs, prototypes/demos, migrations, etc that can fail right and left. The issue is that the big successes are like winning the lottery for a company. Decent successes are often very visible, they MAKE themselves known. But those are the rare ones, most IT projects that succeed are modest goals, modest outcomes, and probably don't even make any exec's bullet lists. The other issue is that management can be easily swayed by fast talking IT jargon spewers, and they can earn four or five years of sweet paychecks until the bullshit collapses. The fundamental issue is that business management still doesn't think it's in the IT business. That IT isn't as (or more!) important than accounting and finance.