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  2. List of failed and overbudget custom software projects

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    eHealth Ontario is a group of projects that replaced a previous failed project, Smart Systems for Health, which "spent $650 million but failed to produce anything of lasting value." However, in 2009 the CEO of the eHealth Ontario agency resigned, followed by the government minister responsible for overseeing the agency, after a scandal over ...

  3. List of modern infrastructure failures - Wikipedia

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    Infrastructure includes the basic physical and organizational structures needed for the operation of a society or enterprise, [1] or the services and facilities necessary for an economy to function.

  4. Engineering disasters - Wikipedia

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    Engineering is a precise discipline, requiring communication among project developers. Several forms of miscommunication can lead to a flawed design. Various fields of engineering must intercommunicate, including civil, electrical, mechanical, industrial, chemical, biological, and environmental engineering.

  5. 12 Reasons Why Project Management Is Important - AOL

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    3. Better Productivity. Project management is important because it ensures there’s a proper plan that outlines a clear focus and objectives to allow the team to execute on strategic goals.

  6. 8 Most Common Reasons Small Businesses Fail - AOL

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    Having a love for your product and realistic expectations about what it will take to keep your business afloat will prevent you from being one of the 5% of start-ups that fail because of burnout ...

  7. Failures of water supply and sanitation systems - Wikipedia

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    This level of failure represents a total investment of between USD 1.2 and USD 1.5 billion in the last 20 years (as of 2010). [2] These failures often due to poor planning, lack of choice of appropriate technology depending upon the context, insufficient stakeholder involvement at the various stages of the project, and/or lack of maintenance.

  8. Failure cause - Wikipedia

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    Rather than the simple description of symptoms that many product users or process participants might use, the term failure scenario / mechanism refers to a rather complete description, including the preconditions under which failure occurs, how the thing was being used, proximate and ultimate/final causes (if known), and any subsidiary or ...

  9. Death march (project management) - Wikipedia

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    Management may desperately attempt to right the course of the project by asking team members to work grueling hours (14-hour days or 7-day weeks) or by attempting to "throw (enough) bodies at the problem", often causing burnout. The discomfort is heightened by project participants' knowledge that the failure is avoidable.