"Tom Anderson" wrote in message
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On Sun, 17 Oct 2004, John wrote:

In article , Angus Bryant
writes

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It will be a first if any government funded, directly managed project
comes in at anything under double the budget - dome, Scottish
parliament, portcullis annex to house of parliament, NHS computer
system, etc. etc.

True. However, it would be equally remarkable if any project managed
privately did it!

This reminds me of the old 80:20 rule.

The first 20% of the project takes up 80% of the time whereas the last 80%
of the project takes up the other 80% of the time!

PC