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The CHAOS Report 2009 on IT Project Failure By The Standish Group collects information on project failures in the IT industry and environments with the objective of making the industry more successful and to show ways to improve its success rates and increase the value of the IT investments. The latest results have been compiled into the CHAOS Report 2009 published by the organization in April. Problem: it measures success by only looking at whether the projects were completed on time, on budget, and with required features and functions (met user requirements). What happened to the rest of the “six triple constraint”! The organization leaves out of its measures the quality, the risk, and customer satisfaction.
The CHAOS Report 2009 on IT Project Failure By Jorge Dominguez. The Standish Group collects information on project failures in the IT industry and environments with the objective of making the industry more successful and to show ways to improve its success rates and increase the value of the IT investments. Pdf Download Standish chaos report 2009 pdf. Line 805, in SvcRun self. Class size limited to 8 students. L8042Kbd Logitech PS2 Keyboard Filter Driver. I m now free.
Not that we are complaining. They have the right to measure whatever they want and we have stated before that we have to consider the CHAOS Report results in a recent article on my theory on. But we, PMs, already know that all these measurements work in tandem and need to keep this in mind. CHAOS Report – Pie Chart The report shows that software projects now have a 32% success rate compared to 35% from the previous study in 2006 and 16% in 1994. On the other hand, 44% of projects were challenged (late, over budget and/or with less than the required features and functions) while 24% failed (cancelled prior to completion or delivered and never used).
Year 2009 Year 2006 Year 2004 Year 2002 Year 2000 Year 1998 Year 1996 Year 1994 Successful 32% 35% 29% 34% 28% 26% 27% 16% Challenged 44% 19% 53% 15% 23% 28% 40% 31% Failed 24% 46% 18% 51% 49% 46% 33% 53% So, must we conclude that project success is a little worse than in 2006 (32% vs. 35%) but definitely better than in 1994 (16%)? For sure, there is better project management expertise (more certified project managers), better training, and better tools and techniques. On the other hand, project complexity and environments have increased while the time to deliver has been reduced. Look at the table above and make your own conclusions.
In our opinion, project success in IT has improved when looking at all the many angles that are not being considered by the CHAOS Report. Nevertheless, the figures are still low and need to improve much more. Still, the CHAOS Report continues to be an important measure for the IT industry in spite leaving a lot of curious minds wandering about the methods used. Jorge Dominguez, PMP®. Great post Jorge!
I recently started blogging and incorporated a link to this blog in a recent post of mine. I am thinking about an upcoming post where I would like to discuss executive commitment to project management best practices and its effect on the success of projects. I have seen many organizations implementing a watered down version of PM or PMO’ssome project templates and a task tracker. Until we have executives viewing PMs as business leaders and not just consultants providing project status, we will continue to see watered down success rates. It honestly is my first time being exposed to project management.Done correctly it’s fruits can be monetarily rewarding for those involved.My novice interpretation is that project management is no different than any other art form,all of it’s components must fall into place an act as one, otherwise the project can turn into a genuine waste of time and money.It is interesting to note how many areas comprise project management,if a project is sucessfull the experience of building it from the ground up can be both a rewarding and exciting experience.
Standish Group has just CHAOS Report 2009. News is spread pretty fast and there are many about value of CHAOS Reports, including these which.
Personally I consider the report as a valuable source. Not that I don’t see, I just take it as every statistic, with proper distance, and I come into my own conclusions. A few numbers revealed in press release show little difference from what we saw in:. Only about one third of projects can be considered as success. Less than a half projects are challenged (I always loved the term).
More than 20% projects failed I don’t really care much whether we dropped a few points in success rate or which nuances moved several projects from “challenged” to “failed” group. The main conclusion is the same and it isn’t very positive: Nothing changes. We still are poor at delivering projects.
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Oh, yes we are. Yes well, never mind.
Hey, agilists, Seems it doesn’t work. Sorry, couldn’t refrain myself. Why it is so? I think the problem isn’t located in any specific, flawed project management methodology. I think everybody got used to it.
Actually statistic customer expects that half of their projects will be challenged and only 3 out of 10 will succeed. And they’re cool about it. Oh, they will play their role of enraged client, that’s for sure.
Then they’ll tell you to cut your next schedule in a half because last proposition isn’t acceptable. And guess what, there will be another challenged project to add to the statistic. Another part of the picture is that vendors don’t care much either. I know only few teams which actually try to learn how to which are prerequisite to deliver more or less on time and on budget. Most of schedules for software projects should be read as “ our rough guess is that we’ll deliver it on 3rd quarter.” What we learn from CHAOS Report then? These results are here to stay. Another three years won’t change things much.
We’ll be adopting new trendy techniques and it’ll end up as always – in struggle. A minority which is able to deliver what they promise will differentiate from the rest every now and then. Seems like a pretty good strategy for me. Your blog is brutally honest in many fronts. And that is truly great. Once a manager informed (above 10 years in industry) – I do not know how a project comes to a closure.
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From experience, we can say that: 1. A dedicated set of team who are driven 2. A strong value system in the company and customer orientation 3. A leader who loves his/her people and open/fair 4.
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A senior management team who is not ego driven, rather have gone through the highs and lows of product development 5. Good technical know-how. Rest just fits in. We have worked with some of the toughest customers from Japan and never get delayed on time or budget.
Though we love to talk about plan, estimation, analysis, EVM, DTA etc. – truly it is the people who if motivated can do wonders. It may be some other factors, but so far as we have seen, it is the people and people and people all the way. Yes, it’s all about people. If you have a problem it’s most likely.
Unfortunately people won’t change dramatically in a moment. On average they’ll suck as often as they do now.
Of course there are organization which are able to gather great teams and their success ratio is most likely higher than average. Of course there are customers where people understand which actions are counterproductive and rarely force them which increase chances for success. But these organizations are not the only ones which count in statistics.
Vast majority of problems can be reduced to people. On the other hand there’s no single answer for a question how to deal with people.