The megaprojects literature does use it in those ways. I haven’t found that much discussion on what exactly Ben and Will do talk about, I just found a few tweets.
I’m fine with people defining megaproject in a different sense; but if so, I think it should be defined. In this case, it’s not clear to me what their definition is exactly.
My impression is that the commonality of megaproject failure is more “a really big project, with often a bunch of stakeholders, and is difficult to incrementally develop”, more so than being about bridges/dams in particular. Many huge software projects fit similar patterns and have had similar fates. Many large technocratic initiatives also had a lot of problems.
If you take out software, hardware, and technocratic initiatives, I’m not sure why kinds of projects there are that could make it to the $100Mil mark.
The megaprojects literature does use it in those ways. I haven’t found that much discussion on what exactly Ben and Will do talk about, I just found a few tweets.
I’m fine with people defining megaproject in a different sense; but if so, I think it should be defined. In this case, it’s not clear to me what their definition is exactly.
My impression is that the commonality of megaproject failure is more “a really big project, with often a bunch of stakeholders, and is difficult to incrementally develop”, more so than being about bridges/dams in particular. Many huge software projects fit similar patterns and have had similar fates. Many large technocratic initiatives also had a lot of problems.
If you take out software, hardware, and technocratic initiatives, I’m not sure why kinds of projects there are that could make it to the $100Mil mark.