a
geneca
industry
survey

in a survey conducted in winter 2010/2011, 596 business and
it professionals answered 25 questions asking why projects fail.

THE RESULTS ARE IN:

75% admit their projects are usually or always doomed from the start.
  TOTAL IT BUSINESS
ALWAYS 27% 24% 41%
USUALLY 48% 49% 41%
OCCASIONALLY 18% 21% 7%
NEVER 7% 6% 11%
Geneca leaders discuss the strong need for companies to re-evaluate their requirements definition process in order to give their people the confidence that their projects will succeed.

75% of respondents admit
that their projects are usually or

always “doomed right
from the start”

including 27% who always
feel this way.

80% confess they spend at least
half their time on rework.
  TOTAL IT BUSINESS
all time 21% 20% 24%
most time 39% 38% 47%
about half 19% 19% 19%
portion 15% 16% 9%
rarely 6% 7% 1%
NEVER <1% <1% 0%
Executives are consumed with rework that could be avoided or at least minimized. Time spent up front on defining requirements in business terms and getting complete stakeholder alignment will pay off in the end. success from the onset.

80% of respondents
CONFESS AT LEAST

“HALF THeiR time
IS SPENT ON REWORK”

those who only spend
a portion or less
on rework is just 21%

78% believe the business team is
usually or always out of sync.
  TOTAL IT BUSINESS
ALWAYS 25% 21% 43%
USUALLY 53% 55% 45%
OCCASIONALLY 21% 23% 12%
NEVER 1% 1% 0%
CTO, Bob Zimmerman and Client Partner, Tony McClain discuss how easily teams can fall into assumptions about being aligned, and how to help prevent the costs of this lack of alignment.

78% of respondents
Feel the business is

“usually or always
out of sync”

surprisingly, the business
respondents feel this to be true
more often than i.t.

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