Anatomy of a Runaway IT Project

The following document is the actual text–carefully redacted–of a memo I wrote some time back after performing an IT project review. The project in question was a major IT re-engineering effort for a mission-critical system; it would eventually be canceled and the work products abandoned. The memo itself provides an interesting glimpse into just how a major IT project can go so far off the tracks that nothing useful is ever delivered.

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