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> It's amazing how often giant IT projects like these go off the rails. Exploding costs and garbage implementations. If you start the sentence with: "A 5+ year government IT project that cost over 100 million-" I already know how the story ends.

People don't notice when things go right.

What about all the 5+ year, $100M projects you didn't hear about, because they never made the news, because the project went smoothly?

Even in general conversation we tend to vent about how bad our day/week was, and not how awesome something went:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negativity_bias