Re: yipeee!

From: Ed Stevens <nospam_at_noway.nohow>
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 08:06:14 -0600
Message-ID: <mg77201ec32ohltcm2gm3m9dtv3bbbai43@4ax.com>

On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 01:29:12 +1100, "Noons" <wizofoz2k_at_yahoo.com.au> wrote:

>"Mark A" <ma_at_switchboard.net> wrote in message
>news:OhsUb.15$Ki4.17007_at_news.uswest.net...
>
>> The odds of a medium scale application development project ever being
>> completed with code in production is less than 50%.
>
>they decrease to 0% if the developer is IBM/GSA...
>
>> Of the remaining 50%
>> that make it into production, the vast majority of those projects will be
>> over way budget and/or seriously late to completion.
>
>You forgot: dumbed-down so that SOMETHING can be delivered to the client...

Nuno,

Remembering that 85% of all statistics are made up on the spot . . . .

I don't know if Mark's numbers are based on reliable studies or personal observation, and I'm pretty sure your numbers are a bit of hyperbole (is 'bit of hyperbole' an oxymoron?) but my personal experience says both of you are close enough to the truth to be scary. And I think you know who writes my paycheck. Received on Fri Feb 06 2004 - 08:06:14 CST