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By Martin deMartini – It is an unfortunate reality most IT projects don’t end well; in fact researchers found 68 percent end up marginal or outright failures. For software-related projects, only 16.2 percent are completed on time and on budget. If you are a large organization, that number drops to 9 percent. Many never realize the promised value or ROI.

Researchers from Gartner and The Standish Group surveyed IT staffers to find out and found the top three reasons for this and the results should come as no surprise:

  • lack of complete requirements (13.1 percent)
  • lack of user involvement (12.4 percent)
  • lack of resources (10.6 percent)

Using print management and document scan automation software projects as an example, following are three ways to prevent IT project failures.


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