“IT Projects: Expert Witness, CIO, In-House Counsel & Litigation Forum
... engaging IT best practices, turning around IT projects, & understanding IT litigation issues” http://blog.wsrcg.com
Despite great changes and/or advances during the last 20 years in the shape of the world (it’s flat again), science, medicine, publishing, distribution, communications, the price of gasoline, the world-wide web and 9/11, two related areas of technology have failed to keep pace: IT system project success and the IT Law that supports it.
Did you know that:
1. The success rate for software development/implementation projects has not exceeded 35% (per the Standish Group’s “Chaos Reports”) during that period?
2. Scrapped software projects accounted for $55 billion in the USA – just a few years ago (per the National Institute of Science & Technology)?
3. The promised cost, schedule and functionality benefits from outsourcing IT have not been realized in 50% of the North American & European companies that use it?
4. Lawsuits between many large software companies, their Fortune 500 customers, and the giant IT consulting/systems integrator firms have grown from virtually nothing into a steady stream of specialized litigation?
Is there nothing we have learned during the past 20 years to improve the odds of a successful implementation that meets functional, quality, cost & schedule requirements and ROI, tolerable risk levels & stakeholder expectations?


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