Reconciling Innovation With Control: The Air Force's $1.3 Billion Lesson In Agile

Reconciling Innovation With Control: The Air Force's $1.3 Billion Lesson In Agile: What are we to make of the news that the Air Force recently canceled a six-year-old software modernization effort that had consumed $1.3 billion and produced nothing of value? Note, that’s $1.3 billion, not $1.3 million. And it’s not that the project produced less benefit than expected. It produced absolutely no benefits at all. The whole project has been canned.