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Project management

the argument that projects with the most underestimated costs and overestimated benefits look best on paper and so are the ones that get approved.

In project management, survival of the unfittest refers to the argument that projects with the most underestimated costs and overestimated benefits look best on paper and so are the ones that get approved. This meaning comes from Flyvbjerg (2009) in Oxford Review of Economic Policy.[1]

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References

Flyvbjerg, B. (2009). Survival of the unfittest: why the worst infrastructure gets built--and what we can do about it. Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 25(3), 344-367. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxrep/grp024

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