Comment by PeterStuer

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'.