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101 Ways To Know Your Software Project Is Doomed (codesqueeze.com)
4 points by horatio05 on July 17, 2007 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments



A cool little app would let us list "problem signs" and we could vote on their seriousness and then assign a weight to each one. Then you could answer it like a survey and get a "Failure Prediction Score".

I'm busy. Someone send me a link when it's done, please.


I do recall there being a study about how internal prediction markets were really good at forecasting software release dates...


Wait a minute, I was hired as a consultant... and I did take the blame! Yup, pretty sure that project failed.


We have 15 of these. Is that bad?


I would say that the second sentence in your comment was probably more significant than the first.




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