A Strategic View on Process Reengineering

Today’s way of developing software products is clearly not optimised and controllable, due to the lack of technology stability and some other technical factors the whole software industry is continuously experiencing changes as well as failures. Are we really sure that the fact that a project fails depends on the “technology” we are using? Indeed technology is important but the reasons for project failures – still more than 66% of projects fail, more than 82% end over schedule, and less than 52% with the promised feature set has nothing to do with technology: bad requirements management, scarce or absent documentation, bad change management, bad project management… (see “Standish Group CHAOS report 2004” for more detailed information).