encuesta ambysoft - it project success 2013

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2013 IT Project SuccessSurvey Results

Scott W. Ambler

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@scottwambler

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About the Survey

• Ran during November 2013 under the title “2013 IT Project Success Survey”

• Survey link included in:– www.ambysoft.com/surveys/ page– Drdobbs.com article – Posting to Agile and Lean Software

Development, Agile CMMI, and the DAD discussion groups on LinkedIn

– Twitter postings via @scottwambler• Data, summary, and slides

downloadable from www.ambysoft.com/surveys/

• 173respondents– 25% worked in orgs of 500+ IT people




Important points

• The success rates found in this series of surveys is significantly more optimistic than the results promoted by the CHAOS report. This is because this survey asks people to define success in the terms in which the teams were actually judged, as opposed to imposing a definition of success on them (such as on time, on budget, to spec which less than 10% of people actually subscribe to)

• Agile, lean and iterative strategies were superior on average to traditional and ad-hoc strategies

• There was no statistical difference between the effectiveness of agile and iterative

• There was no statistical difference between traditional and ad hoc.


Comparing Software Development Paradigms: 2013

Traditional

Ad-Hoc

Agile

Iterative

Lean

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%

Successful Challenged Failed


Comparing Delivery Paradigms

Time/Schedule

ROI

Stakeholder Value

Product Quality

-2.0 -1.0 0.0 1.0 2.0 3.0 4.0 5.0 6.0 7.0

LeanAgileIterativeAd-hocTraditional


Time/Schedule: Which is more important?

Neither are important

Delivering when solution is ready to be shipped

Both are equally important

Deliver on time according to schedule

2%

39%

42%

16%


Budget/ROI: Which is more important?


Provide the best return on investment (ROI)


Deliver on or under budget

4%

60%

23%

13%


Stakeholder Value: Which is more important?


Meet the actual needs of stakeholders


Build the system to specification

0%

86%

10%

4%


Product Quality: Which is more important?


Deliver high-quality, easy to maintain systems


Deliver on time and budget

0%

56%

34%

10%


Do people really want systems that are on budget AND on time AND built to specification?

All three

Built to specification

On or under budget

On time to schedule

8%

14%

36%

58%

Answer: Very few apparently do!


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