Trillions Spent and Big Software Projects Are Still Failing

Bent Flyvbjerg(Research cited)

Danish Institute for IT Program Management
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Research Centre for Government IT
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Software Engineering

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Media Coverage

Title

Trillions Spent and Big Software Projects Are Still Failing

Media type

Web

Media name

IEEE Spectrum

Date

2025-11-23

Link

https://spectrum.ieee.org/amp/it-management-software-failures-2674305315

Producer

Robert N. Charette

Persons

Bent Flyvbjerg(Research cited)

Description

“Why worry about something that isn’t going to happen?”

KGB Chairman Charkov’s question to inorganic chemist Valery Legasov in HBO’s “Chernobyl” miniseries makes a good epitaph for the hundreds of software development, modernization, and operational failures I have covered for IEEE Spectrum since my first contribution, to its September 2005 special issue on learning—or rather, not learning—from software failures...