According to the widely quoted “Chaos Chronicles,” a staggering 66% of IT projects prove unsuccessful in some measure, whether they fail completely, exceed their allotted budget, aren’t completed ...

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 ...

Your project is on schedule, until legal reviews take way longer than anticipated. You find out—too late—this exact situation happened with another a project a few years ago. Sound familiar?

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 ...