Why software projects fail? Empirical evidence and relevant metrics
Maurizio Morisio, Evgenia Egorova, Marco Torchiano · PORTO Publications Open Repository TOrino (Politecnico di Torino) · 2007
In this paper we present an empirical study on factors that cause the success or failure of a software project. The study deals with the definition and validation of metrics and indicators to make more objective the meaning of success (and conversely failure) of a project, and correlates characteristics of a project (such as experience of the staff and the project manager, techniques used for requirement engineering, and so on) with its result. The study, performed on a number of Italian companies, can be easily replicated in other countries or within a company, in order to assess its software processes and steer its process improvement initiatives.