Comments on: Why software projects fail – and how we make them work http://www.reach1to1.com/2005/06/15/making-software-work/ information and workflow architects Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:52:45 +0000 hourly 1 By: Managing Business by Remote Control | On2Biz http://www.reach1to1.com/2005/06/15/making-software-work/comment-page-1/#comment-12078 Managing Business by Remote Control | On2Biz Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:25:32 +0000 http://www.reach1to1.com/?p=12#comment-12078 [...] The difficulty lies in the decision of how much data to capture. If you ask a manager to decide what to capture, you will tend to get an answer close to “everything”. From a manager’s perspective, the more data the better. And most software systems aim to please the manager by providing more features meaning more data to enter. This inevitably leads to a situation where over 90% of software implementation projects fail. [...] [...] The difficulty lies in the decision of how much data to capture. If you ask a manager to decide what to capture, you will tend to get an answer close to “everything”. From a manager’s perspective, the more data the better. And most software systems aim to please the manager by providing more features meaning more data to enter. This inevitably leads to a situation where over 90% of software implementation projects fail. [...]

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