Can anyone please help me get some data from industry reports or vendor reports on quantitative benefit of using better requirements activities? Any pointers will be really helpful.
Submitted by ScottWAmbler on Wed, 2009-07-01 12:43. *
When people are allowed to define success in their own terms, as opposed to having a definition forced on them (which usually ends up being "relatively on time, on budget, to spec") you end up with much higher success rates. I find it incredibly hard to believe that only one in three projects success, don't you?
The implication is that the requirements-related statistics you cite (without references, so they really should be questioned) are only valid in those situations where success is measured in the way that the researchers foist upon their sample set.
Question success rate statistics
When people are allowed to define success in their own terms, as opposed to having a definition forced on them (which usually ends up being "relatively on time, on budget, to spec") you end up with much higher success rates. I find it incredibly hard to believe that only one in three projects success, don't you?
The implication is that the requirements-related statistics you cite (without references, so they really should be questioned) are only valid in those situations where success is measured in the way that the researchers foist upon their sample set.
- Scott
Chief Methodologist/Agile, IBM Rational