One FTE – impressions of a corporate life

the restored and annotated archive — 831 comics

itll cost this much ish

itll cost this much ish

original publish date: 22nd June, 2010

decades on …

Commentary coming soon.

transcript

FTE #4: Business Case B

FTE #2: Business Case A

FTE #5: $3 Million estimate ROI: 2.5 Yrs.

FTE #1: Notice the reluctance to write off funds already spent.

FTE #3: $6 Million estimate ROI: 5.0 Yrs

FTE #5: +$2 Million (overspend) ROI: 4.2 Yrs.

FTE #5: +91 Million (overspend) ROI: 5.0 Yrs.

FTE #5: And all we had to do was sacrifice a couple of Project Managers.

Caption: Accurate forecasting. Less helpful than you would think.