Comment by senshan

In the book "How Big Things Get Done" [1], Bent Flyvbjerg, among other things, identifies one common feature of the projects that do not have large outliers to go over-budget and under-deliver: modularity. Ideally, fractal modularity. His favorite examples: solar power, electric transmission, pipelines, roads. Ironically, IT/software is only slightly better than nuclear power and Olympic games [2].

[1] https://www.amazon.com/-/en/dp/B0B63ZG71H

[2] https://www.scribd.com/document/826859800/How-Big-Things-Get...