>>> The insurance company has the right to fire the director and anybody else and take over the production if it goes significantly over budget. Okay, but how

>>> The insurance company has the right to fire the director and anybody else and take over the production if it goes significantly over budget. Okay, but how would this work in the software field? If a product is significantly over budget, that usually means the software has a ton of unfinished features and bugs. You can't just bring an outside project manager or whatever and expect them to set things right in a few weeks. There's a lot that goes into making movies to be sure, but making software is arguably much harder.