"The Standish Group, which exists solely to track IT successes and failures,
sets out very strict criteria for success. For its Chaos Report, The Standish
Group surveyed 13,522 projects last year and showed that unqualified project
successes are well below 50 percent, 34 percent to be exact. Out-and-out
failures, defined as projects abandoned midstream, are at 15 percent. Falling
in between the two are completed but “challenged” projects. The report says
challenged projects represent 51 percent of all IT projects and are defined
as projects with cost overruns, time overruns, and projects not delivered
with the right functionality to support the business.
The level of success can be tied to the degree of user involvement, executive
management support, and having an experienced project manager, in that order,
the report says. "
Which seems intrinsically likely, in line with GP and other doctor thought on
this and ... a current problem.
Bearing in mind this is written by an IT consulting firm, the next paragraph
is understnadable, but a similar attitude or order of priorities may have
been less appreciated than it should in the early stages of NPfIT.
"For IT project consultancy Sapient, the key ingredient to success or failure
rests on the processes a company puts in place to manage risk."
Because that is what they sell, right?
http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/08/13/33FEmyth5_1.html?s=feature
( via /. today)
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