EpisodeSE Radio 250: Jürgen Laartz and Alexander Budzier on Why Large IT Projects FailSoftware Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers · Feb 22, 2016 · 43 minPlay · 43:23SaveShareEpisode pageAlex Budzier of the Oxford Saïd Business School and Jürgen Laartz of McKinsey Berlin join Robert Blumen to talk about the their research on large IT project failures. Why do large projects fail and to what extent are these failures avoidable?RelatedEpisodes 4Videos 4Books 8Blogs 6Code isn’t the only thing causing your production failuresThe Stack Overflow Podcast • Jun 26, 2026 • 31 minTech Talk: Software in Context with Zach TellmanCoRecursive: Coding Stories • Dec 2, 2019 • 53 minBuild systems with Andrey MokhovSignals and Threads • Sep 16, 2020 • 58 minTech Talk: Jimmy Koppel on Advanced Software DesignCoRecursive: Coding Stories • Aug 1, 2019 • 53 min