CHAOS Chronicles, focusing on failures and possible improvements in IT projects

摘要

The Standish Group started in 1985 in the business of IT market forecasts and predictions using Artificial Intelligence and cased-based reasoning technology. In 1994, we turned to predicting project outcomes, improving software development, and building a world-class database. Standish's cumulative research encompasses 22 years of data on why projects succeed or fail, representing more than 50,000 active completed IT projects. In this paper we clarify how we got here, where we are, and how academia next to practitioners can be part of the next stage of the CHAOS journey. The vehicle that drives our journey is the CHAOS University System.