Comment by kridsdale1
1 year ago
Eventually someone important gets a call from a more important client on the golf course about how his company fucked up on his watch, the new thing is cancelled, the old one is reinstated (to much rejoicing) and the 15% of the huge new effort that actually worked is distilled in to a plugin feature and bolted on to the old product and everyone moves on.
The original PM responsible for all this gets an L+1 diagonal promotion at a new company and pulls this shit again.
PMO never comes out of these debacles worse off, even if the project burned dozens of millions with 0% result. It is never their fault, there are plenty of scapegoats around, preferably smaller external contracters. The threathened lawsuits with the big contracters get settled and kept hush hush as neither party wants the bad press. Just the cost of doing business for them.
Most of the time project leads can stay with the company in another division as tension with the old IT crowd woul be a bit much, and even get promoted as they 'gained experience'.