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"A common project-triangle model places quality at the center of time, cost, and scope constraints."

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Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 3: TOUCHGRASS Fast, Cheap, and Barely Working

Source title The project triangle

Source authors Microsoft Support

Source year 2007

Confidence high

Importance mid

Format Web Page

"The woodpecker quotation was circulating under the name “Weinberg’s Law” by 1975."

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Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 3: TOUCHGRASS Future Polish

Source title Quote Origin: If Builders Built Buildings the Way Programmers Wrote Programs, Then the First Woodpecker That Came Along Would Destroy Civilization

Source authors Garson O’Toole

Source year 2019

Confidence high

Importance low

Format Online paper / PDF

"IT had a fatter cost-risk tail than any other project type in the cross-industry study."

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Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 3: TOUCHGRASS Future Polish

Source title The Uniqueness of IT Cost Risk: A Cross-Group Comparison of 23 Project Types

Source authors Bent Flyvbjerg, Alexander Budzier, Jon Aaen, Mark Keil, Mariagrazia Zottoli

Source year 2025

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Online paper / PDF

"Severely over-budget IT projects in the cross-industry study averaged a 453% cost overrun."

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Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 3: TOUCHGRASS Future Polish

Source title The Uniqueness of IT Cost Risk: A Cross-Group Comparison of 23 Project Types

Source authors Bent Flyvbjerg, Alexander Budzier, Jon Aaen, Mark Keil, Mariagrazia Zottoli

Source year 2025

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Online paper / PDF

"18.26% of IT projects in the cross-industry study exceeded their budgets by more than 50%."

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Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 3: TOUCHGRASS Future Polish

Source title The Uniqueness of IT Cost Risk: A Cross-Group Comparison of 23 Project Types

Source authors Bent Flyvbjerg, Alexander Budzier, Jon Aaen, Mark Keil, Mariagrazia Zottoli

Source year 2025

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Online paper / PDF

"IT projects exceeded budgets less frequently than roads, bridges, buildings, rail, tunnels, and aerospace projects in the cross-industry sample."

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Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 3: TOUCHGRASS Future Polish

Source title The Uniqueness of IT Cost Risk: A Cross-Group Comparison of 23 Project Types

Source authors Bent Flyvbjerg, Alexander Budzier, Jon Aaen, Mark Keil, Mariagrazia Zottoli

Source year 2025

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Online paper / PDF

"IT projects went over budget 40.86% of the time in a cross-industry sample, one of the lowest overrun frequencies among 23 project types."

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Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 3: TOUCHGRASS Future Polish

Source title The Uniqueness of IT Cost Risk: A Cross-Group Comparison of 23 Project Types

Source authors Bent Flyvbjerg, Alexander Budzier, Jon Aaen, Mark Keil, Mariagrazia Zottoli

Source year 2025

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Online paper / PDF

"A cross-industry cost-risk study analyzed 11,011 projects across 23 project types."

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Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 3: TOUCHGRASS Future Polish

Source title The Uniqueness of IT Cost Risk: A Cross-Group Comparison of 23 Project Types

Source authors Bent Flyvbjerg, Alexander Budzier, Jon Aaen, Mark Keil, Mariagrazia Zottoli

Source year 2025

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Online paper / PDF

"In McKinsey and Oxford’s large-project sample, software projects averaged 66% cost overrun versus 43% for nonsoftware IT projects."

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Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 3: TOUCHGRASS Future Polish

Source title Delivering large-scale IT projects on time, on budget, and on value

Source authors Michael Bloch, Sven Blumberg, Jürgen Laartz

Source year 2012

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Online paper / PDF

"In the Standish Group’s 2015 Modern Resolution, 52% of software projects were challenged and 19% failed, for 71% combined."

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Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 3: TOUCHGRASS Future Polish

Source title CHAOS Report 2015

Source authors The Standish Group International, Inc.

Source year 2015

Confidence high

Importance mid