What factors lead to software project failure?

2008 Second International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science Pub Date : 2008-06-03 DOI:10.1109/RCIS.2008.4632095

J. Verner, Jennifer Sampson, Narciso Cerpa

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It has been suggested that there is more than one reason for a software development project to fail. However, most of the literature that discusses project failure tends to be rather general, supplying us with lists of risk and failure factors, and focusing on the negative business effects of the failure. Very little research has attempted an in-depth investigation of a number of failed projects to identify exactly what are the factors behind the failure. In this research we analyze data from 70 failed projects. This data provides us with practitionerspsila perspectives on 57 development and management factors for projects they considered were failures. Our results show that all projects we investigated suffered from numerous failure factors. For a single project the number of such factors ranges from 5 to 47. While there does not appear to be any overarching set of failure factors we discovered that all of the projects suffered from poor project management. Most projects additionally suffered from organizational factors outside the project managerpsilas control. We conclude with suggestions for minimizing the four most common failure factors.

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什么因素导致软件项目失败?

有人认为，软件开发项目失败的原因不止一个。然而，大多数讨论项目失败的文献倾向于相当笼统，为我们提供风险和失败因素的列表，并关注失败的负面业务影响。很少有研究试图深入调查一些失败的项目，以确定失败背后的确切因素。在这项研究中，我们分析了70个失败项目的数据。这些数据为我们提供了从业人员对57个他们认为是失败的项目的开发和管理因素的观点。我们的研究结果表明，我们调查的所有项目都受到许多失败因素的影响。对于单个项目，这些因素的数量从5到47不等。虽然没有出现任何主要的失败因素，但我们发现所有的项目都受到糟糕的项目管理的影响。大多数项目还受到项目经理无法控制的组织因素的影响。最后，我们提出了减少四个最常见故障因素的建议。

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