The Iron Law of Megaprojects

Over budget, over time, under benefits, over and over again

Bent Flyvbjerg
Towards Data Science
6 min readAug 5, 2021

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Professor Emeritus, University of Oxford; Professor, IT University of Copenhagen. Writes about project management. https://www.linkedin.com/in/flyvbjerg/