Software Projects That Failed
sami123 says : I'm searching for a good article which presents a Software Project and the reasons that he failed. (Like lack of planning, resources, money, lack of risk analysis, lack of testing and the such)
Can anyone direct me to a good article / site ?
thx alot.
bas says : This is a famous one:
Who Killed the Virtual Case File?
For some more I suggest google for "project failure case" or something like that :)
Let us know which one you finally picked ... good luck
Marrashe says : Along with the article suggested, here are some of the major reasons project fail:
1. Technically incompetent management
2. Unrealistic schedules
3. The "Let's just add more resources (people)" game. This again goes to technical incompetence.
4. Poor requirements specification. this usually goes all the way up the chain to Marketing not understanding their users needs.
Project Managers nedd to have been in the Engineering trenches and keep their knowledge up to date otherwise they are pretty much useless


