One FTE – impressions of a corporate life

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  • itll cost this much ish

    itll cost this much ish

    original publish date: 22nd June, 2010

    decades on …

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    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.