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Faculty of Science and Information Technology => Software Engineering => Topic started by: farzanaSadia on April 20, 2017, 02:39:44 PM

Title: Why up to 75% of Software Projects Will Fail
Post by: farzanaSadia on April 20, 2017, 02:39:44 PM
Many executives are feeling worn down by confusion around project business objectives and recognize the need for more involvement from business stakeholders. These are the key findings of a new study of approximately 600 business and IT executives published by software development firm, Geneca.

The study, entitled “Doomed From the Start? Why a Majority of Business and IT Teams Anticipate Their Software Development Projects Will Fail” examines why teams continue to struggle to meet the business expectations for their projects. It surveys participants on such topics as requirements definition, accountability, and measuring project success.

“There is no question that the overall survey results shows that our single biggest performance improvement opportunity is to have a more business-centric approach to requirements,” states Geneca President & CEO, Joel Basgall. “Unfortunately, poor requirements definition practices have become so common that they’re almost tolerated. The gloomy results of this survey really drive this home.”

Interestingly, survey responses from IT professionals and their business counterparts are fairly similar, indicating that both groups have many of the same concerns with regard to their projects.

Key survey findings include:

    Lack of confidence in project success: 75% of respondents admit that their projects are either always or usually “doomed right from the start.”
    Rework wariness: 80% admit they spend at least half their time on rework.
    Business involvement is inconsistent or results in confusion: 78% feel the business is usually or always out of sync with project requirements and business stakeholders need to be more involved and engaged in the requirements process.
    Fuzzy business objectives: Only 55% feel that the business objectives of their projects are clear to them.
    Requirements definition processes do not reflect business need: Less than 20% describe the requirements process as the articulation of business need.
    Lack of complete agreement when projects are done: Only 23% state they are always in agreement when a project is truly done.
Title: Re: Why up to 75% of Software Projects Will Fail
Post by: afsana.swe on April 20, 2017, 02:48:18 PM
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Title: Re: Why up to 75% of Software Projects Will Fail
Post by: khalid on April 20, 2017, 04:47:14 PM
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Title: Re: Why up to 75% of Software Projects Will Fail
Post by: ksohel on April 20, 2017, 06:12:00 PM
Good to learn from the failure!!
Title: Re: Why up to 75% of Software Projects Will Fail
Post by: Fahad Zamal on April 20, 2017, 06:22:24 PM
Failure is the part of  learning.