[teampractices] IT projects almost as prone to overruns as the Olympics

[Max Binder]

....relative to those other projects, yea. That said, 50 percent ain't
nothing. :)

On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 11:24 AM, Joel Aufrecht <jaufrecht at wikimedia.org>
wrote:

> The Olympic Games average 156 percent cost overruns, outdistancing all
>> other types of megaprojects. For comparison, road projects average overruns
>> of 20 percent; bridges and tunnels 34 percent; energy projects 36 percent;
>> rail projects 45 percent; dams 90 percent and IT projects 107 percent.
>>
>
> (according to The Oxford Olympics Study 2016: Cost and Cost Overrun at
> the Game <http://arxiv.org/pdf/1607.04484v1.pdf>)
>
> (source
> <http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/hosting-the-olympics-is-a-terrible-investment/>
> )
>
>
>
> *-- Joel Aufrecht*
> Team Practices Group
> Wikimedia Foundation
>
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