If you ever have a need to burn off some excess optimism, try taking a look through some of the statistics out there about success and failure rates for enterprise IT projects — it’s pretty ugly. Although specifics of statistic and survey data vary, studies have historically suggested
failure rates as high as 75 percent for technology projects. That means it’s quite a bit more likely for an IT project to fail than succeed — including projects that don’t complete at all, as well as projects that have time, budget or quality “challenges.”
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The Neverending Quest for IT Security
Posted by: Ed Moyle March 15, 2011 05:00 AMIf you ever have a need to burn off some excess optimism, try taking a look through some of the statistics out there about success and failure rates for enterprise IT projects — it’s pretty ugly. Although specifics of statistic and survey data vary, studies have historically suggested
failure rates as high as 75 percent for technology projects. That means it’s quite a bit more likely for an IT project to fail than succeed — including projects that don’t complete at all, as well as projects that have time, budget or quality “challenges.”