Define or Die!

A recent article in CIO magazine asserts that over 50% of IT projects fail. The article states, I think quite correctly, that the reason for this is that the systems that end up being implemented don’t align with the business interests for which they were intended. It isn’t a technology failure, it is a requirements failure. The takeaway is this: define or die! We must learn to define what we want before we go to the immense trouble of building this complex computer infrastructure.Read More