Project went bad? It's just a matter of fixing the process. That's a reasoning that's simple, easy to understand and entirely wrong. Contrary to what the evang

Project went bad? It's just a matter of fixing the process. That's a reasoning that's simple, easy to understand and entirely wrong. Contrary to what the evangelists' tell us, process has small (I'd almost say minimal) influence on software development failure or success. The responsibility is on the lead project manager. He's not been good enough. A failure on a project of this size doesn't just happen overnight. If you just look, you can see it coming from miles away. The solution will always be highly uncomfortable though. You'd have to stand up to powerful people who hold authority over you, fire sub-contractors or employees, significantly reduce scope, move deadlines. Big, high impact actions that won't be popular, hell they might even get you fired. Not a job for the faint of heart for sure. It's depressingly typical of big corporations and organizations, to allow people not capable enough to be put in charge of such large projects. And it's even more depressing knowing tax dollars are being wasted in such huge amounts on relatively (big emphasis) simple software.