Twenty Percent.
This article describes software projects, and how the management of many companies have agreed to probability of completion rates that are as low as 20%. The author reports about many instances where project managers fully expect a late delivery or delayed installation. When the inevitability of a d...
| Published in: | Communications of the ACM Vol. 50; no. 6; pp. 21 - 24 |
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Association for Computing Machinery
Jun2007
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