95% of IT Projects Not Delivered On Time

An anonymous reader wrote " The Globe and Mail reports that 'A new report conducted by market research firm Info-Tech Research Group says 95 per cent of information technology groups are not delivering some number of projects on time or to the full satisfaction of the business executive.' The article goes on to discuss the reasons for this pervasive (perceived?) problem. The article mentions Info-Tech's reasons: unrealistic time frames, staff shortages, and poorly defined project scope. However, the article's author lays the blame with vendors."

Comments

misleading headline

[wankledot]

There's a huge difference between 95% of firms not delivering a project ontime, and 95% of all projects being late.

Not projects

[Council]

Well, quite obviously, it's a problem with how deadlines are chosen, combined with peoples' natural work tendencies (where they work up to a deadline and get it done sometime soon after).

This isn't "oh no evidence of every company doing some particular thing wrong 95% of the time." It's a general property of this type of project.

To put it differently, if 95% of people are voted above 9 on hotornot, it means there are some parameters to the voting or the choices or the statistics. Not that the world is incredibly attractive.