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.