HARD FACTS ON BUSINESS ANALYSIS

Did you know that:

  • 70% of all project failures are as a result of poor requirements.
  • There is a 60% time and cost premium to be paid on projects with poor quality requirements.
  • As the projects get more interdepartmental and complex, the failure rate rises.
  • It costs 80 times as much to fix defects after delivery, than at the specification stage.
  • 74 per cent of all companies have immature requirements practices.
  • Large scale systems project fail with alarming regularity. A typical project over-ran its budget by 189% and over-ran its schedule by 222%.
  • Average project has about 30% rework. This means that for every Kshs 1,000,000, Kshs 300,000 is spent redoing something that was thought to be complete.
  • The average company with low requirements maturity wastes 34% of the organization?s IT development budget.
  • 68% of companies simply did not use the necessary competency in requirements discovery at the start of their project to assure project success.

Source: IAG Business Analysis Benchmark, 2008 (za http://www.iag.biz/resources/library/business-analysis-benchmark.html)

Jaroslaw Zelinski

I have 30 years of experience in the information systems market. I have been designing and supervising implementations for 20 years. I have been researching information and systems modelling for 15 years, and am also an academic teaching and research experience.

This Post Has 2 Comments

  1. Jacek Rybicki

    Czy są jakieś raporty o tym ile firma musi stracić, żeby zmienić swoje podejście do np. zarządzania wymaganiami?

  2. Jarek Żeliński

    Hm… trudno mi powiedzieć, nie spotkałem… ale 100% moich klientów to firmy po przejściach więc chyba trzeba coś stracić, ale nie wiem jaki jest próg…;), nie raz mam wrażenie, że to nie przeszkadza developerowi a klient płaci bo nie wie, że przepłaca, czasami jednak klient “coś czuje” i … mam klienta …

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