Believe what ever you want to Kevin. There is, none the less, broad and durable finding of fact that establishes this estimate of 75% is in the range of what is really happening out there.
One major study by the GAO of government issued contracts for IT deliverables found that 97% of the contracts were finally terminated without the government ever getting an installed as ordered product. Only 3% of the contracts were considered to have been successful. The number of contracts studied exceeded one hundred, and may have been above 300, but my memory on that point is cloudy. As I recall, of those 97% failures, over 90% of these were NEVER delivered by the contractors. A search of the GAO government archives will produce this report, and the many similar studies that followed over the years. Notice Kevin, that when the contractor you order from never even sends you an empty box, criteria really don't matter at all. Failure to deliver is not really much a matter of judging shades of gray. Regards, Richard. > From: Kevin Toppenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [email protected] > Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 10:16:54 -0500 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] Goedelian malaise > > I have a hard time believing that 75% of projects fail. Based on what > criteria? > > Kevin > > On 11/12/05, Gregory Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> This does have anything specifically to do with medical information >> systems in general or VistA in particular, so feel free to stop >> reading now, if you wish. But it does have to do with the quality of >> software in general, and so is related (albeit indirectly) to >> healthcare informatics, and to VistA. >> >> A well known statistic in the computer industry is that 75% of >> projects fail -- and that's only the beginning of the story when it >> comes to issues of software cost and quality. Why is this? No doubt, > -snip- > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is sponsored by: > Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download > it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own > Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php > _______________________________________________ > Hardhats-members mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
