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I have an even more reductionist angle: if you look at the success rates of these sorts of IT projects, total failures are somewhat less than 50% but general failures, the latter plus systems that lack significant functions that were part of the requirements are well over 50%.

So you might say that doing this sort of IT is akin to cargo cults: these organizations aren't really doing it, they're just pretending to themselves that they are.

So, if you're going to fail, why not fail as cheaply as possible?