As You Sow, So You Reap! What are the other factors involved?

Is that really true? Is so, to what degree? There are so many questions that are left unanswered when we read about something.. Or even for each and every thing we do in our daily life. The things are unanswered because they need not be answered for us to progress with a few things and most of things in this world are relative except birth, death and, self-satisfaction.

There are external factors which affect (not effect) the system, nature has its own way of controlling others by means of Tsunami's etc.. That's true for almost every system that we see, our software projects don't (in-fact never) go according to what we plan, what are the causes there , most of the times, the schedules slip, are reasons good enough for that when people with say 10-15 years of development experience have been discussing about the whole plan for about 1-2 months. Do we ever question any director or project manager's capabilities when 6 month project plan schedule slips by say 2 months (that is basically slippage by 33% in terms of the time involved, and much more than 133% of the cost involved). How many times do we have the feedback loop to imbibe resolutions for the failure in the organization? Most of us always try to design/develop/plan for the best case scenarios, but those things don't always work in real world, else guys would not have come out with things like negative testing, (that the testing guys should focus more on breaking the system). Indeed of testing only for normal conditions, check more for the adverse conditions. The whole world is moving towards more autonomic, self-health checking & healing systems, but there too, we do always consider the adverse conditions and can never specify foolproof system. Phenomenon like stock market crash (which is more human controllable), or some natural disaster (which is not human controllable in all ways) are the external factors which always affect any healthy system working perfectly.

A person who wins, whether with good practices or bad practices are always sung /write history, whereas a good guy /team who looses are always written down as losers in the history, or rather they do not exists in the history any more.

Considering facts, according to study at MIT 99% of software product startups fail, does that mean that, 99% of people who start new enterprise, start with fluke or with predetermined will to fail. The problem being relativity, working hours are not the same everywhere, nor is success. So its not only how you sow, but also how you cultivate 'n' finally reap along with other external factors, like the environment... What I consider to be very important are Time, Place, Effort and Money.