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Study: Less Chaos in Development Shops

By David Rubinstein

February 12, 2007 —

More software projects are ending successfully and fewer are considered outright failures, according to figures contained in the soon-to-be-completed 2006 Chaos Report from The Standish Group.

The new report, details of which were shared with SD Times last week, reveals that 35 percent of software projects started in 2006 can be categorized as successful, meaning they were completed on time, on budget and met user requirements. This is a marked improvement from the first, groundbreaking report in 1994 that labeled only 16.2 percent of projects as successful. That report galvanized an industry of development tools vendors selling everything from requirements management solutions to modeling tools and turned software architecture into a cottage industry.

Further, the 2006 study shows that only 19 percent of projects begun were outright failures, compared with 31.1 percent in 1994. The 2006 report is the sixth published by The Standish Group, and chairman Jim Johnson said that with the exception of a lapse in 2004, "we've seen consistently better software projects."

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