日期：2025.5.13
文章級別：高級
節錄自：Why so many IT projects go so horribly wrong (The Economist)＊＊＊＊＊
Many of the projects he studies are grand infrastructure schemes: dams, railways, nuclear-storage facilities and the like. If you don't work in one of the relevant industries, your experience of such projects is likely to be limited to complaining about traffic jams and wasted money. But tech projects are ubiquitous. They affect every industry: Gartner, a research firm, estimates that $5.6trn will be spent on IT in 2025. And they can affect every part of an organisation.
In their new paper Mr Flyvbjerg and his colleagues claim to have confirmed for the first time that IT does have a particular problem. They compare actual and budgeted costs for IT projects with 22 other categories, and find good news and bad. The good news is that lots of IT projects stick to their budgets (Brighton & Hove Albion): only 40% of them overrun on costs, compared with 100% of Olympic games, 97% of nuclear-power plants and 75% of hydroelectric dams.
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閱讀理解題目
- What is the purpose of listing various kinds of projects in the beginning of the first paragraph?
- What does it mean by "tech projects are ubiquitos"?
- What is the good news about IT projects?
