To understand why the results differ from Standish, I asked Blaize Horner Reich, one of the authors, to explain. Blaize sent me unpublished material describing differences between her group's ...

The broad project management sector has been seeking ways to reorient itself to meet client demands in an increasingly mercurial and fluid world. A related challenge is determining what metrics should ...

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Engineering firms have always measured success based on specific project metrics such as reducing project delays and delivering on budget and time. These metrics are essential in project management, ...

To meet these business challenges, we have set some critical success factors for IT at Reed Elsevier, which our projects must contribute to. These are the development of demonstrably superior external ...

Every time there is an industry-wide adoption of a new capability or technology, metrics soon follow. Some 50-plus new metrics, which always lag the business initiatives in practice, are typically ...