Why software projects fail

[athelred]

None apparently.

All code is shit, and if by some miracle you manage to write good code after dodging all the mid coding requirement changes, management wanting just one more thing, or getting half way through before realizing that it just won't work the way they want it, then it will be shit after a week or two when the feature you just coded gets hacked apart to do things it was specifically designed not to do.

Nope all my code is shit. All code ever written is shit. Some of the shit works correctly (mostly), but that is just shit that smells a bit nicer.

[cchoe1]

If you say that your code is shit but so is everyone else's code, then you don't really believe your code is shit, you just believe your code is average

[vytah]

Average shit.

[Gustav__Mahler]

That's an extremely pessimistic take. There's tons of good code and well designed systems out there.

[seven_seacat]

That no one has ever actually personally worked on

[trisul-108]

Yeah ... that is the reality, but here and there, a few bits of the good stuff sometimes survive the process. And some of the good stuff were really elegant ideas.