Re: Ironic Project Names

Ah, the memories, John. I worked for one of the subcontractors on two of the WPPSS plants. It was poorly conceived, planned, and managed from the start; all of the contractors knew that and said so. It was built on change orders because no one had a clue what the plan was, including (especially) the system's project managers.

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John Earl wrote:

My all time favorite project name has to be the Washington Public Power
Supply System - an ambitious program to build 5 nuclear power plants in
Washington State. Earlier on it gained the moniker 'WPPSS' (pronounced:
whoops).
In the early 1980's it was so badly troubled that they had only
completed 1 of the 5 power plants and then were forced to declare
bankruptcy and default on billions of dollars in publicly financed bonds
(the largest public bond failure of all time). Investors all over the
world lost their shirts.

WHOOPS!

jte

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system and called it "Promise", evoking many Biblical references about
the promised land, especially after the company I work for (and many
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USD

each. There were also a few unseemly corollaries related to a

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Pantzopoulos, Michael wrote:

I know of a project here in Australia which is code-named 'Daytona'.

Unfortunately the project is having some issues and we realized,
cynically of course, that Daytona could actually mean 'Go round and
round in circles until you crash and burn'. That got me wondering

how

many other projects are out there have been named in an ultimately
ironical fashion. Might take our collective minds off the daily

minutae

of iSeries problems.


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