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Is Software Really Different than other Industries?
Much has been made about the failure rate of software projects with the failure rate being around 66%. Failure being defined as over budget, delivered late or both. No mention is made of how many of those projects suffered from severe scope creep and feature bloat. Neither is whether or not the sucessful projects delivered the correct software nor how complicated the "sucessful" projects were. Further it has been claimed that if it were any other industry the failure rate wouldn't be tolerated.