Comments on: The 2009 Chaos Report – Is Project Success Really that Rare? http://www.talentontarget.com/index.php/2009/08/the-2009-chaos-report-is-project-success-really-that-rare/ Wed, 09 Feb 2011 20:16:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: PM Hut http://www.talentontarget.com/index.php/2009/08/the-2009-chaos-report-is-project-success-really-that-rare/comment-page-1/#comment-1455 PM Hut Wed, 27 Jan 2010 23:38:41 +0000 http://www.tenrox.com/blogs/talentontarget/?p=870#comment-1455 Rudolf, I have published the CHAOS results from 1994 to 2009, you can find it <a href='http://www.pmhut.com/the-chaos-report-2009-on-it-project-failure' rel="nofollow">here</a>. You can see that the success rate has definitely increased. Rudolf,

I have published the CHAOS results from 1994 to 2009, you can find it here. You can see that the success rate has definitely increased.

]]> By: Civile http://www.talentontarget.com/index.php/2009/08/the-2009-chaos-report-is-project-success-really-that-rare/comment-page-1/#comment-1224 Civile Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:10:09 +0000 http://www.tenrox.com/blogs/talentontarget/?p=870#comment-1224 I possibly can't comment entirely on the report since I don't know if we are looking at the figures as a whole in terms of projects or a differentiation. I however can speak for the IT results and their succeeding and failure. Here we can make two very distinctive remarks. Projects in highly political sensitives organizations and projects in commercial oriented and driven organizations. I seldom have seen real good figures, estimates, and results in political environments. Stronger I may say that these environments have clear tendency to propagate a succes on bases of personal view and achievement rather then real accountable results and measurable prospect. Here I find that the succesfull conclusion of projects is 45%. Reasons for succes or faillure can be multiple. However they can be listed as following. Succesfull 1. Good and transparant communication between parties involved 2. Clear understanding of objectives 3. Clear personal commitment and transparancy 4. High sense of one-ness and sense of mutual responsibility 5. Result driven with sense for accountability Faillure 1. Personal and individual aim and gain 2. Disputable project planning and goals 3. Politics 4. Poor awareness of mutual cooperation 5. Poor sense of responsibility Basically I experienced these factors eminent present triggering other positive or negative there after. In IT I have experienced, even after a few dips, that still we can find the real gain in transparency in communication between IT and non IT management. So as far as the figures of Standish might be a little buyest however there surely are bases for improvement. RC I possibly can’t comment entirely on the report since I don’t know if we are looking at the figures as a whole in terms of projects or a differentiation.

I however can speak for the IT results and their succeeding and failure. Here we can make two very distinctive remarks. Projects in highly political sensitives organizations and projects in commercial oriented and driven organizations.

I seldom have seen real good figures, estimates, and results in political environments. Stronger I may say that these environments have clear tendency to propagate a succes on bases of personal view and achievement rather then real accountable results and measurable prospect. Here I find that the succesfull conclusion of projects is 45%.

Reasons for succes or faillure can be multiple. However they can be listed as following.

Succesfull

1. Good and transparant communication between parties involved
2. Clear understanding of objectives
3. Clear personal commitment and transparancy
4. High sense of one-ness and sense of mutual responsibility
5. Result driven with sense for accountability

Faillure
1. Personal and individual aim and gain
2. Disputable project planning and goals
3. Politics
4. Poor awareness of mutual cooperation
5. Poor sense of responsibility

Basically I experienced these factors eminent present triggering other positive or negative there after.

In IT I have experienced, even after a few dips, that still we can find the real gain in transparency in communication between IT and non IT management. So as far as the figures of Standish might be a little buyest however there surely are bases for improvement.

RC

]]>