Research Links:
Leading causes of failure: changing business needs & unmet expectations.
http://www.isaca.org

Failure Causes: Statistics
http://www.it-cortex.com

Project failures contradicts Standish
http://www.itbusinessedge.com

Understanding sources of project failures
http://findarticles.com

Silence: Root cause of project failures
http://www.management-issues.com

BCS Project failures study
http://www.bcs.org
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Resources

IT Project Failures Blog—Michael Krigsman, CEO Asuret, Inc.
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White Paper: Seven Fundamentals for Achieving IT Project Success

Despite improvements in software and IT processes, approximately 30-70% of IT projects fail. They are late, over budget, or don't meet planned requirements.  Attempts to rectify failing projects are often directed at improving processes.  While this can help, it does not address the root causes of failure, and therefore the fundamental reasons for failure remain. 

In this paper, we examine the roots of IT project failure, which live in the gap that exists between the business strategists who define the project and the technology organization that implements it.

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IT Failures Books
Identifying and Managing Project Risk: Essential Tools for Failure-Proofing Your Project (Hardcover) by Tom Kendrick (Author) "Far too many technical projects retrace the shortcomings and errors of earlier work..."
   
The Project Turnaround Methodology (When Failure Is Not an Option) (Paperback) by Shane A. Hills (Author) "In the spring of 1998, I was working in a Fortune 500 financial services company as an IT project manager..."
   
Stop IT Project Failures (Computer Weekly Professional Series) (Computer Weekly Professional Series) (Paperback)
by Dan Remenyi (Author) "Risk and the management thereof, in the context of information systems (IS) development, is an issue that has not received much attention..."
   
Software Failure: Management Failure: Amazing Stories and Cautionary Tales (Wiley Series in Software Engineering Practice) (Paperback)
by Stephen Flowers (Author) "Computerized information systems are at the heart of all modern organizations..."
   
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Other Useful Blogs:
Blogspots project failures blog 
http://it-project-failures.blogspot.com

Bruce F. Webster blog 
http://brucefwebster.com/

StackSafe blog 
http://www.stacksafe.com

Risks Digest blog 
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk

The Daily WTF blog 
http://thedailywtf.com

Tony Collins' IT Project blog 
http://www.computerweekly.com

The Risk Factor blog 
http://blogs.spectrum.ieee.org
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