What are the Common Reasons Why IT Projects Fail?

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In my view, the common reasons for failure of IT projects are: 1. Lack of risk management 2. Lack of proper scheduling 3. Lack of communication 4. Lack of integration while going live 5. Lack of cost control 6. Addressing the wrong business requirements 7. Poor project governance 8. Environmental changes 9. Lack of scope management. Any builds? (...) Read more? Sign up for free

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		List of Reasons for it Project Failure Jaap de Jonge, Editor, Netherlands
	Hi Gowtham, your list is looking like a very good start of this discussion. Did you compile it from own experience? Any sources you used to back up your list? Please add that to make this discussion even more interesting. WBR.

		On #6 of List of Reasons for IT-Failure Mahmood Azizi, Manager, Iran, Member
	Hi Gowtham, thanks for sharing your views, I suppose the root cause of failure of IT projects is that there is a gap between the perceptions and concepts of the programmers/analyst team and the stakeholders requirements. It is very hard to translate business requirements to IT concepts.

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