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

Mon Aug 15 20:15:43 UTC 2016

I would also be interested in cost overrun comparisons with other
*international* projects. I mean, that has to add to the confusion and
unpredictability, right?

The chunnel came in at 80% over budget, according to wikipedia.

Kevin Smith
Agile Coach, Wikimedia Foundation

On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 11:33 AM, Arthur Richards <arichards at wikimedia.org>
wrote:

> Fascinating, Joel, thanks for the share!
>
> 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/>
>> )
>>
>
> Worth noting that the study looked ONLY at sports-related costs and
> excluded larger projects (eg infrastructure):
>
> The numbers cover the period 1960-2016 and include only sports-related
>> costs, i.e., wider capital costs for general infrastructure, which are
>> often larger than sports-related costs, have been excluded.
>
>
> I am curious what the average overruns would like if all Olympics-related
> costs (eg infrastructure, etc) were included.
>
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