Why Do Public Sector Software Development Projects Fail – Part 2?
Part 2 – Apparent Causes In this second part of our series on why public sector IT projects fail we’re going to discuss who or what commonly gets blamed for failure. In our unfortunately all too many postmortems of failed IT projects here’s what we typically find people saying: Technology Technology failed us. “We didn’t have the right tools, We needed different software/hardware/network/programming language and we would have been ok.” The assumption here is there is some magic technology bullet that would have pushed us over the threshold of success. It’s possible but highly unlikely in our experience. Methodology Our methodology failed us “We used ABC (insert CASE, SCRUM, Agile, Waterfall, Information Engineering – we’re old enough to have seen them all) system development and XYZ method of project management. If only we had used 123 project management and 456 system development methodology we would have been okay.” Similar to technology the idea is that there was some magic techniqu
