The industry studies I&#x27;ve seen have shown that, in addition to most enterprise projects failibg, project failure is <i>positively</i> correlated with project size.<p>My experience in enterprise software suggests that the way many large enterprises -- private and public -- wrap more layers of review, bureaucracy, and big up front design on projects the more money is involved (specifically intended as a risk management technique) is a big contributing factor to this.<p>So is the idea of a big software project. Almost without exceptional, large enterprise &quot;software&quot; projects really need to be conceived as business process reengineering efforts, where changes to automation are one of means of implementing the reengineering.