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The Standish Group’s original 1994 CHAOS Report has been often quoted but is currently hotly disputed. It purports to explain, in general terms, the reasons that IT and programming-oriented project management operations tend (arguably) to fall short of reasonable expectations in terms of projected delivery time, financial budget parameters and functionality upon completion -- if indeed, there is a fixed point of completion of the Minimum Viable Product ( MVP ) pursuant to original specifications.. It would seem, by the Report, and based upon some compelling anecdotal evidence that where IT and software -involved projects tend to run off of the rails in a number of ways and for a number of reasons, infrastructure projects (each with a physical result and expectations which can much more easily be visualized at the project’s inception) in contrast, tend to meet initial expectations and produce the contemplated result. The Report is not based upon so much science and f...