IT Projects Lessons
- 31% cancelled
- 53% cost 189% of budget
- 16% completed on‑time, on‑budget
- Large organizations: only 9% successful
- Avg time overrun is 229%
- No major project is ever installed on time, within budget, with the same staff that started it. Yours will not be the first.
- Projects progress quickly until they become 90% complete; they remain at 90% complete forever
- One advantage of fuzzy project objectives is they let you avoid the embarrassment of estimating corresponding costs
- When things are going well, something will go wrong
- When things just can't get any worse, they will
- When things appear to be going better you have overlooked something
- If project content is allowed to change freely, rate of change >> rate of progress
- No system is ever completely debugged: attempts to debug system inevitably introduce new bugs that are even harder to find
- A carelessly planned project will take 3x longer to complete than expected; a carefully planned project will take only 2x
- Project teams detest progress reporting because it vividly manifests their lack of progress
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