Aprender com Darwin (parte IV)

Parte I, parte II e parte III.
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Outro exemplo monumental da vantagem da aprendizagem à Drawin "To avoid big IT catastrophes, follow Darwin":

"Unnoticed and unsung, however. this government may actually have found a way to bring the horrid history of big. public IT projects to an end.
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McKinsey found in 2012 that 17 per cent of IT projects budgeted at more than $15 million fail so badly they threaten the company's very existence.
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Instead, Mr Maude and Mr Bracken are teaching the civil service to start small, fail fast, get feedback from users early and evolve the thing as you go along.
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those who succeed allow for plenty of low-cost trial and error and incremental change. It's the mechanism Charles Darwin discovered that Mother Nature uses. Rather than a grand "creationist" plan or a big leap, natural selection incrementally discovers success through trial and failure.
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Yet government kept trying to do things by grand plan.
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Mr Maude began by centralising controls so that he had to sign off any IT contract of more than £1 million (now raised to £5 million), then built up an in-house capability to offer cheaper and. better design, and opened procurement to smaller companies. Government contracts with outside IT suppliers are now shorter and smaller. Some of the savings on over were so vast that civil servants refused to believe than. In one case, 98,5 per cent of the cost of an existing contract was saved by letting a contract to a small British business rather than an incumbent multinational IT firm, and it worked better."

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