Title :
A Replicated Survey of IT Software Project Failures
Author :
El Emam, Khaled ; Koru, A. Günes
Author_Institution :
Ottawa Univ., Ottawa, ON
Abstract :
Results from our global Web survey of IT departments in 2005 and 2007 suggest that, although the overall project failure rate is high, word of a software crisis is exaggerated.
Keywords :
project management; software management; IT software project failures; Web survey; software crisis; Chaos; Computer industry; Crisis management; Measurement units; Project management; Resource management; Size measurement; Software measurement; Software performance; Waste management; productivity; programming teams; project control and modeling; review and evaluation; risk management; schedule and organizational issues; software engineering management;
Journal_Title :
Software, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MS.2008.107
