Well, certainly the Auditor General's recommendations in 2006 were that we should move towards smaller projects, and therefore smaller contracts by association. Other industry research from the Standish Group and many other project management advisory boards certainly stresses that smaller projects have a much higher likelihood of success than big, monolithic projects. So yes, I would say that, and my experience in the private sector, as well as, I'd say, quite a bit of experience, indicates that smaller is better. It's problem decomposition: try to achieve smaller, more regular, and more repeatable results.
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