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surveyed 365 companies and conducted a number of focus groups and interviews in order
to determine:
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??? The scope of software project failures
??? The major factors that cause software projects to fail
The Chaos Report stated that 16.2% of projects were successful, that is, these projects completed
on-time and on-budget, with all features and functions as initially specified. 52.7%
of projects were partial failures, that is, these projects were completed and they became
operational, but were over-budget, over the time estimate, and offered fewer features and
functions than originally specified. 31.1% of projects failed, that is, they were canceled at
some point during the development cycle. This research survey also tried to determine the
most important success, partial failure, and failure criteria. Table 2 lists the three criteria in
descending order of importance.
To emphasize the gravity of the prevailing problem of failure in IS projects, some more reports
are examined and a summary of findings is presented in Table 3 (IT Cortex, 2005).
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