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Overconfidence kills software projects

𝗦𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘀 𝗳𝗮𝗶𝗹.
We all know that. Statistics are staggering. Or just misleading. Bottom line is that every one in the industry knows that IT projects fail often, many have experienced it first hand.

Two interrelated thoughts come to mind. They may not resonate with you - which is, incidentally, a very good news!

💭 [𝙼&𝙾 𝙲𝚘𝚗𝚓𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚞𝚛𝚎 #2]  𝚃𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚒𝚜 𝚗𝚘 𝚠𝚊𝚢 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚌𝚊𝚗 𝚐𝚎𝚝 𝟾𝟶% 𝚌𝚎𝚛𝚝𝚊𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚢 𝚒𝚗 𝚊𝚗𝚢 𝚎𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚊𝚟𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚠𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚙𝚎𝚘𝚙𝚕𝚎 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚒𝚗𝚟𝚘𝚕𝚟𝚎𝚍

💭 [𝙼&𝙾 𝙲𝚘𝚗𝚓𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚞𝚛𝚎 #3] 𝚂𝚘𝚏𝚝𝚠𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝙳𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚕𝚘𝚙𝚖𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚓𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚜 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚕𝚊𝚛𝚐𝚎𝚕𝚢 𝚏𝚕𝚊𝚠𝚎𝚍 𝚋𝚢 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚏𝚒𝚍𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚖𝚊𝚗𝚊𝚐𝚎𝚖𝚎𝚗𝚝.

All the "explanations" about projects failure you read in (good) literature are an outpouring of (2) and (3). 

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