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Does the old adage "80% of all software projects fail" still hold?
by thinkingemote 6y ago
Does the old adage "80% of all software projects fail" still hold?
- redis_mlc 6y agoIf you mean large software projects, yes, if you include slipped deadlines. The real killers are: - no owner, or fake (insincere) owners - data cleanup - schema re-mapping (on 10,000 tables) - no usable requirements - disinterest. I've done several enterprise-scale migration projects, and have a 100% track record, because I was a "real owner." But when I look through old jiras, I always see failed versions of the identical project by employees who refused to step up and be an owner. Favorite compliment/curse, "You must have really wanted it." Most SAP projects fail, as well as most new billing projects, some on a colossally expensive scale - think $100 million and up.
- CrLf 6y agoDefine “fail”. We go through our lives labeling failures as successes.