[allengeorge]

The key point: major changes were made:

1. Very late in the design process

2. After construction had started (!)

I mean, politicians or not, the moment you start making major changes during buildout you’re going to have problems, regardless of what you’re building.

[paulddraper]

> One simple problem, bizarrely enough, was the airport architect, Meinhard von Gerkan's dislike of shopping.

> Joel Dullroy, a Berlin-based journalist with Radio Spaetkauf, who produced a podcast telling this airport's story, says Mr Gerkan wrote disdainfully about passengers "dragging around unwanted bottles of whisky like a beggar" and wanted to have as few airport shops as possible.

> But when the airport company realised this - very late in the day - it insisted on adding whole new floors of shopping into the design, as the company now makes up to 50% of its revenue from retail.

Yeah, that's gonna do it.

[consp]

You describe with this every big government software project as well.

[mrich]

You can remove government from that sentence.

[tomglynch]

The should have just followed AGILE methodology.