The story of the Vasa is a great lesson on the dangers of changing specifications while a project is underway. Not exactly the lesson of the apparent debacle of the Ford, which is more a lesson on the dangers of using a lot of new unproven technology in a major project.
In fact... Pete Cheslock just gave a talk regarding the Vasa and how it applies to engineering anything, but software especially:
https://www.slideshare.net/petecheslock/the-vasa-redux
And he actually did a quick lightning talk (5 minutes) on it the year prior at Monitorama:
It was a very funny and well done presentation. Definitely worth watching.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasa_(ship)