Hollywood Secrets of Project Management Success: a review of a sort
Take that project you are currently running, and imagine, just for a second, that it came with only 3% budget overrun. Most of people in software industry would call it wild success.
In motion picture industry, however, trampling measly 2% or 3% over initial budget would be considered a failure.
While movie industry and software industry are seemingly light years apart, there are many things these two have in common, and there are obviously many things we can learn from them.