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What You Should Know About Megaprojects, and Why: An Overview — mentioned by bediger4000

Fri, 22 Mar 2024 15:45:22 GMT

How much does Bent Flyvbjerg's work on megaprojects impact this? Around 2000, he used to claim that either people didn't understand the scope of very large projects, or that there were shenanigans involved. One of Flyvbjerg's more recent papers: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1409.0003

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What You Should Know About Megaprojects, and Why: An Overview — mentioned by gammarator

Sun, 26 Mar 2023 02:26:38 GMT

> The "iron law of megaprojects": Over budget, over time, over and over again. https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.0003

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What You Should Know About Megaprojects, and Why: An Overview — mentioned by barry-cotter

Wed, 25 Sep 2019 11:43:06 GMT

Over budget and late is the norm for projects that complicated. If you’re spending enormous sums of money on something that isn’t very, very close to something you know how to do, again you’ve actually done something very similar, and recently, massive cost overruns are the norm[1]. If the average software project is over budget, late and doesn’t do all the things it was supposed to do on design stage, just think how much more complex these things are. [1]https://arxiv.org/pdf/1409.0003.pdf

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