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.
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.