Comment by hermitcrab

>Frustratingly, the IT community stubbornly fails to learn from prior failures.

So far I believe that there has been too much emphasis in education on coding and algorithms (small scale/tactical stuff) and not enough emphasis on the engineering side of things like version control, QA, system design, management etc. I think the situation has changed (40 years ago most professional programmers didn't even know what version control was, let alone use vc systems) but the scope of the projects has increased faster than our skills and tools.