The CHAOS Report
The Standish Group[4] is a research organization that studies the software industry. Their flagship study, appropriately named the CHAOS Study, looks at a broad cross section of software development projects and evaluates their success based on various criteria. The study includes 34,000 software projects in a range from shrink-wrap software and operating systems to custom applications and embedded systems. The ten-year rolling study includes a wide range of different software projects and different sponsors. Every year they drop 3,400 projects that they were looking at from ten years ago and pick up 3,400 new projects.
The Standish Group sent questionnaires to 365 respondents, covering 8,380 applications in an effort to sort ...
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