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  2. List of failed and overbudget custom software projects

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    Because software, unlike a major civil engineering construction project, is often easy and cheap to change after it has been constructed, a piece of custom software that fails to deliver on its objectives may sometimes be modified over time in such a way that it later succeeds—and/or business processes or end-user mindsets may change to accommodate the software.

  3. Category:Discontinued custom software projects - Wikipedia

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    Custom software projects that were either cancelled, or scrapped soon after their initial deployment. Pages in category "Discontinued custom software projects" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.

  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. List of cancelled military projects - Wikipedia

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    21.4 United States Navy/United States Marine Corps. 21.4.1 Attack Aircraft. ... Focke-Wulf Project I; Focke-Wulf Project II; Focke-Wulf Project VIII; Focke-Wulf Super ...

  6. Death march (project management) - Wikipedia

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    WARSIM is a U.S. Army wargame. [3] [4] [5] The project was originally called WARSIM 2000 at its inception in the early 1990s.Several decades after its original scheduled delivery date, WARSIM had yet to support a single Army training exercise, but is still being funded, largely to vindicate those who conceived of the system and defended it over the lifetime of its development.

  7. How The World Bank Broke Its Promise to Protect the Poor

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    Over the last decade, projects funded by the World Bank have physically or economically displaced an estimated 3.4 million people, forcing them from their homes, taking their land or damaging their livelihoods. The World Bank has regularly failed to live up to its own policies for protecting people harmed by projects it finances.

  8. Project Cybersyn - Wikipedia

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    The project consisted of 4 modules: an economic simulator, custom software to check factory performance, an operations room, and a national network of telex machines that were linked to one mainframe computer. [2] Project Cybersyn was based on viable system model theory approach to organizational design and featured innovative technology for ...

  9. Kosovars Who Rebuilt War-Torn Village Face New Threat As ...

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    In Kosovo, a state-owned energy company plans to destroy a village to make way for expanded coal mining as the government and the World Bank plan for a proposed coal-burning power plant. The government has already forced roughly 1,000 residents from their homes. Many former residents claim officials violated World Bank policy requiring borrowers to restore their living conditions at equal or ...