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Writer's corner
Project Success/Failure statistics
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1994
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1996
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1998
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Failures
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84
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70
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72
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Successes
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16
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30
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28*
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Data
Sources: The Standish Group, the Metagroup and The
Standish Group, respectively.
Failure is defined as:
- a canceled project or,
- an over budget and/or late and/or under scope project
* Original data
available for Small-32%, Medium-28% and Large
Companies-24%. 28% is the average of the three percentages
above.
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