The most mind boggling number in this article to me was PeopleSoft claiming it would cost $500 million to make a payroll system for the Canadian government. Tha

The most mind boggling number in this article to me was PeopleSoft claiming it would cost $500 million to make a payroll system for the Canadian government. That’s thousands of working years of software developers. It’s such a huge scale that it seems pretty clear the project should never start. PeopleSoft should have been dumped and the project’s scope massively reevaluated.