The late 20th century was littered with project failures. It's still going on in the legacy world. Here's one example that shows precisely how ignoring red flags will guarantee failure. The ...

One billion dollars. Zero results. Those are the basics of a cancelled software modernization project at the Air Force. And since it was your taxpayer money, and you deserve to know, I’ll just go ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Analysis of failures of conservation projects are rarely published, a new study has found. Researchers who reviewed the available scientific ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Expert in data-driven physical-to-digital business transformation. While it is quite natural in IT’s world view to talk features, ...

At the recent Enterprise 2.0 Conference, I was quietly eating essential nutrients (cookies and coffee), when Paul Dandurand, founder and CEO of PIEmatrix, introduced himself. Paul’s company is ...

A new white paper from Alpha Software describes three broad categories of risk that explain why software projects fail: Process failures arise when a project is "bumped off track," relative to the ...

The project failure rate for businesses of all sizes is staggering. A well-known PWC study of more than 10,640 projects found that just 2.5% were completed successfully. Barely an improvement, the oft ...

A half-million lines of custom code wasn’t enough to produce a viable Dynamics AX ERP (enterprise resource planning) system for point-of-sale and RFID products distributor ScanSource, according to a ...

Nate Nead is the CEO of DEV.co and SEO.co. Nate and his teams specialize in custom software development, web design and digital marketing. Most business leaders are excited to launch new software ...

The parliamentary system of governance, installed at Independence, has badly failed our country. Despite our nation’s plentiful natural resources of agricultural land, hydropower potential, gold and ...