Regarding your point (1): How many developers/PMs/etc. are working on Office software at Microsoft? With 20 you might be several orders of magnitude off. Why w

Regarding your point (1): How many developers/PMs/etc. are working on Office software at Microsoft? With 20 you might be several orders of magnitude off. Why would a government project be leaner? What is more, at least where I live there is not even a salary structure allowing to pay developers those figures, while managers several levels above them would earn less. Hierarchy is everything in government organizations.