One-third of all money spent on software is used to repair botched projects, says Atlantic Systems Guild principal and author James Robertson, with billions spent each year reworking software that ...

This first part of a four-part series describes the shifts in focus needed to address project teams’ failures. Q1. Which root cause of bad decisions do science project teams most typically neglect? Q2 ...

There’s a new book to add to my collection of books on IT failure: “Why New Systems Fail,” by independent software consultant Phil Simon. The book takes an in-the-trenches approach to identifying ways ...

After HealthCare.gov failed to work as advertised at launch, government officials pointed the finger at contractors, and at the lack of a unified management structure to oversee the development of the ...

In this special guest feature, Anexinet Director of Advanced Analytics, Brian Atkiss, discusses how Big Data projects can fail for many reasons, including the project’s inability to integrate with ...

The Chartered Institute of Project Managers of Nigeria has developed a new homegrown project management framework aimed at tackling the persistent problem of abandoned, delayed, and poorly executed ...

This represents a waterfall type of approach to project planning, where one phase flows into the other. It works well for certain industries such as construction and manufacturing, but it is less ...