First, I continue to bang away at the topic of managing risk in my article "Sizing Up Your Promises and Expectations." When we examine IT project overrun statistics, we see that the small percentage of projects that manage to make both cost and schedule do so by the only method known to mankind when the deadline looms like a freight train -- they cut function to the core. I take a look at how people get into that sordid mess in the first place.
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September 2000 IT Metrics Strategies: Introduction
By Michael Mah
Posted August 31, 2000 | Technology | Cutter Benchmark Review
About The Author
Michael Mah is Managing Partner of QSM Associates, Inc., a firm specializing in software measurement, project estimation, and "in-flight" control for both inhouse and outsourced/offshore development. QSM has developed and maintains one of the largest databases of more than 7,500 completed projects collected worldwide, with productivity statistics and trends on cost, schedule, and quality from more than 500 organizations and 18 countries.
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