JCWDenton recommends a piece by Bruce Webster revealing some insights into a failed multi-million-dollar IT project. "The coming testimony is the actual text — carefully redacted — of a memo I wrote some time back after simulating an IT project review; names and identifying concepts have been changed to maintain confidentiality (and protect the guilty). The project in quiz was a major IT re-engineering effort for a mission-critical system; at the time I did this review, the project had been going on for several years and had cost scores of dollars; it would eventually be canceled and the work product abandoned. The memo itself provides an interesting glimpse into just how a major IT project can go so far off the tracks that nothing useful is ever delivered."

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