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A 10 billion dollar project is 100x larger. It's definitely more difficult to manage.
by jolux 4y ago
A 10 billion dollar project is 100x larger. It's definitely more difficult to manage.
- Retric 4y agoSure it’s more difficult, but the difficulty doesn’t increase linearly with budget. A 100m dollar project isn’t 100x as difficult as a 1m dollar project. I am not saying anyone can make the jump, but promotions often mean handing an order of magnitude larger projects.
- mooseknees 4y ago[dead]
- kaspern 4y agoI'm not sure how you can conclude that for any infrastructure project, complexity scales sublinearly. This feels true in software, but not real world matters IMO. Think of all of the politics & hard choices involved, for instance, in displacing people vs. bending over backwards to accommodate them with the California high speed rail project.
- bobthepanda 4y agoIf anything, complexity probably increases exponentially as you have to consider ever more permutations of possible project.
- japaneseminisub 4y agoI agree, and think that this should be incorporated into the cost. Ie, a project twice as complex should be 5x the cost due to the additional management, comms overhead, permutations and potential risk. Said another way the curve is logarithmic and there's a theoretical upper bound on project complexity.
- Retric 4y agoTotal project complexity isn’t the relevant metric here, a project with 100x the budget has more people managing it any many decisions don’t make it to the top. Also, if a 2x as complex a thing takes 10x the budget then that scaling is already part of the budget figure.