What Is the Planning Fallacy and Why Projects Always Run
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What Is the Planning Fallacy and Why Projects Always Run

Corrected by Emir Baycan · on When Notes Fly · 12 July 2026 · View published page ↗

The planning fallacy is the tendency to underestimate how long projects will take despite knowing that similar projects ran over. Learn the science, the...

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The Sydney Opera House, estimated at £7 million, cost £102 million
+The Sydney Opera House, estimated at about AU$7 million, cost about AU$102…
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they increased their estimate to eight years. The project ultimately took ten
+they increased their estimate to eight years. The project ultimately took eight

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