Why Big Software Projects Become Disasters, Part One

The fault is in our stars

This is the first of three articles, based on the famous Shakespeare quote:

"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings

This article is about the impersonal forces that create the disasters. Part Two will be on the more interesting parts: what in our psychology causes them? Part Three will be the fix, based heavil…