davis@mwunix.mitre.org (David Davis) (07/25/90)
We frequently hear the assertion that some other field of engineering
performs better than the software profession in meeting cost/schedule
goals...well, not always.
A recent Washington Post article (about 21 July) described how the
British Channel Tunnel, or "Chunnel", project is half done and 60%
over budget, through a combination of inflation, poilitics, and the
unexpected. I would like to suggest that this supports a pet theory of
mine that almost all big projects get into some trouble, simply
because of their bigness. Small comfort? At least one can carve
up a software project in to safer, smaller ones.
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