I would also be interested in cost overrun comparisons with other *international* projects. I mean, that has to add to the confusion and unpredictability, right?
The chunnel came in at 80% over budget, according to wikipedia. Kevin Smith Agile Coach, Wikimedia Foundation On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 11:33 AM, Arthur Richards <aricha...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Fascinating, Joel, thanks for the share! > > On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 11:24 AM, Joel Aufrecht <jaufre...@wikimedia.org> > wrote: > >> The Olympic Games average 156 percent cost overruns, outdistancing all >>> other types of megaprojects. For comparison, road projects average overruns >>> of 20 percent; bridges and tunnels 34 percent; energy projects 36 percent; >>> rail projects 45 percent; dams 90 percent and IT projects 107 percent. >>> >> >> (according to The Oxford Olympics Study 2016: Cost and Cost Overrun at >> the Game <http://arxiv.org/pdf/1607.04484v1.pdf>) >> >> (source >> <http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/hosting-the-olympics-is-a-terrible-investment/> >> ) >> > > Worth noting that the study looked ONLY at sports-related costs and > excluded larger projects (eg infrastructure): > > The numbers cover the period 1960-2016 and include only sports-related >> costs, i.e., wider capital costs for general infrastructure, which are >> often larger than sports-related costs, have been excluded. > > > I am curious what the average overruns would like if all Olympics-related > costs (eg infrastructure, etc) were included. > > -- > Arthur Richards > Sr. Agile Coach: Organizational Collaboration > Team Practices Group <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Team_Practices_Group> > [[User:Awjrichards]] > IRC: awjr > +1-415-839-6885 x6687 > > _______________________________________________ > teampractices mailing list > teampractices@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/teampractices > >
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