This Government Software Project WASTED $500,000,000... Here's Why

Описание: Software projects are clearly difficult things to do well, large software projects are difficult enough to have very high failure rates, large government software projects have such terribly high failure rates that statistically they are doomed to failure before they even begin. So why is that and what can we learn from it? Failing software projects can be very expensive mistakes. The UK government reported on one project that cost £1/2 billion and produced nothing. Government projects are just an extreme example of a more generic problem though, so how should we tackle large complex projects? What can we learn from the all too common public failures of government software projects?

In this episode Dave Farley software engineer and author of best selling selling books “Continuous Delivery” and “Modern Software Engineering” explores big projects in general, using a report on the failure of the UK Government’s “FireControl Project” as a jumping off point to clarify some lessons to be learned.

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