#Flyvbjerg and Gordon's book on projects has a lot of insight about why #ComputerSystems and #IT projects fail so often ,but the most interesting point is the critical role of #modularity as the great David #Parnas pointed out a long time ago.

(4) Get BIG things done: #LEGO fix

LEGO picking the plastic brick in the 1950s as the centerpiece of its business = a fitting #corporatestrategy: LEGO turned a small thing into something much bigger.

“That’s the question every project leader should ask: What is the small thing we can #assemble in large numbers into a big thing?What’s our LEGO?”
-#BentFlyvbjerg, #Oxford economist.

0.5% of big projects: delivered on budget. Dr. #Flyvbjerg’s lessons on why they succeed, are the LEGO fix.

#WSJ

(4) Get BIG things done: #LEGO fix

LEGO picking the plastic brick in the 1950s as the centerpiece of its business = a fitting #corporatestrategy: LEGO turned a small thing into something much bigger.

“That’s the question every project leader should ask: What is the small thing we can #assemble in large numbers into a big thing?What’s our LEGO?”
-#bentflyvbjerg, #Oxford economist.

0.5% of big projects: delivered on budget. Dr. #Flyvbjerg’s lessons on why they succeed, are the LEGO fix.

#WSJ

(1) Get BIG things done: #LEGO fix

Think slow, act fast

#Megaprojects are late bc not enough time spent planning (minimize uncertainty, shrink risk).

#FrankGehry’s #Guggenheim Museum Bilbao opened on time & under budget: experimenting w/designs & models for 2 yrs.

Big things doesn’t mean Gehry poring over blueprints. You could just play w/LEGOS.

“A block of LEGO is a small thing, but by assembling more than 9k of them, you can build 1 of the biggest sets LEGO makes.” -Dr. #Flyvbjerg #WSJ

Get BIG things done: #LEGO fix

Think slow, act fast.

#Megaprojects are late bc not enough time is spent planning (minimize uncertainty, shrink risk).

#FrankGehry’s #Guggenheim Museum Bilbao opened on time & under budget: experimenting w/designs & models for 2 yrs.

Big things doesn’t mean Gehry poring over blueprints. You could just play w/LEGOS.

“A block of LEGO is a small thing, but by assembling more than 9k of them, you can build 1 of the biggest sets LEGO makes.” -Dr. #Flyvbjerg #WSJ