Runaway projects and system failure
How badly are projects managed? Isn't it? On average, private division projects are underestimated by one-half in terms of budget and time required to deliver the complete system promised in the system plan. A very long number of projects are delivered with missing functionally and technically. (promised for delivery in later versions). The Standish Group consultancy, which observes IT project success ratios, found that only 29 percent of all technology investments were completed on time, on budget, and on objects and with all features and functions originally specified. Between 30 and 40 percent of all software projects are ”runaway” projects that far exceed the original schedule and budget projections and fail to perform as originally specified.
A system development project don't have proper management will most likely suffer these consequences:
1. Costs that vastly exceed budgets
2. Unexpected time slippage
3. Technical performance that is less than expected
4. Failure to obtain anticipated benefits
The way in which non technical business users must interact with the system may be excessively complicated and worthless. A system may be designed with a poor user interface and behavior. The user interface is the important part of the system with which end users interact. For an example, an online input form or data entry screen may be so poorly arranged that no one wants to submit data or request information. System outputs may be displayed in a format that is too difficult to comprehend for the customers or users.
Web sites may less encourage visitors from exploring further if the web pages are cluttered and poorly arranged, if users cannot easily find the information they are seeking, or if takes too long to access and display the Web page on the users computer.
