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Project Success/Failure statistics

1994

1996

1998

Failures

84

70

72

Successes

16

30

28*

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.