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>>> An architect, when he has received the commission for some public work, promises in advance what the cost is to be. After 2,000 years surely we should have
by lifeisstillgood 3y ago
>>> An architect, when he has received the commission for some public work, promises in advance what the cost is to be.
After 2,000 years surely we should have found a more realistic means of judging projects and success than the upfront guesstimate …
- duxup 3y agoHuman nature is hard to avoid.
- samus 3y agoIn the face of scope creep, changing requirements, unforeseeable external factors, and purely human factors (like corruption, incompetence, neglect, internal rivalries, etc.), projects always faced huge risks. Projects nowadays are vastly bigger in scope (perhaps unnecessarily so), but the usual mechanisms to control the inefficiencies of bureaucracies are not easy to scale up.
- mulmen 3y agoHow are you sure there is a better method than the educated guess? We have sophisticated methods of guessing and risk mitigation but I don’t believe there’s a fundamentally different approach.
- arccy 3y agoinstead we have cost plus contracts
- Arrath 3y agoAh, the good old engineer estimate.