It's funny

One day our department received a piece of paper from the vice president who said these were the specifications for a new application report.

The vice president said he thought the report should be done in a month.

Looks too much, but for VP it's OK

This was 1992 ...We used PL/SQL and Java(!!!) to build the web interface.

I understand now, why recruiters are asking for 15 year of Java experience

..took 12 of us (a project manager, a DBA, a business analyst, and nine developers) 2 years to finish the project.

Remember, we are still talking about 1(one) (uno!!!!) report. 24 person years!!!

P.S. I used to work with IT department of medium size university (20K students). We have developed in 2 person/month a system with similar functionality (sorry, no graphs).

Therefore, I consider the project above as a HUGE failure