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There are many factors that contribute to these difficulties, but tech is not near the top of the list.
There are many cautionary tales, including the $8-billion FAA AAS system rewrite failure [1].
Contributing factors include
- Regulatory processes
- Subcontracting
- Project management
- Politics and turf wars
- The extreme difficulty of reengineering a complex system when few, if any of the original designers and developers are driving it [2].
[1]: http://sebokwiki.org/wiki/FAA_Advanced_Automation_System_(AA...
[2]: https://www.dropbox.com/s/n0nud2xp2a9bxjo/Programming%20as%2...
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There are many factors that contribute to these difficulties, but tech is not near the top of the list.
There are many cautionary tales, including the $8-billion FAA AAS system rewrite failure [1].
Contributing factors include
- Regulatory processes
- Subcontracting
- Project management
- Politics and turf wars
- The extreme difficulty of reengineering a complex system when few, if any of the original designers and developers are driving it [2].
[1]: http://sebokwiki.org/wiki/FAA_Advanced_Automation_System_(AA...
[2]: https://www.dropbox.com/s/n0nud2xp2a9bxjo/Programming%20as%2...