When a software project stumbles—or ultimately fails—it can have a range of negative consequences, from lost and unrecoverable resources to a blow to team morale. It can be tempting to blame a failed ...

The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has said 56 per cent IT projects embarked upon by the Ministries, Department and Agencies of government usually fail to deliver on what ...

The litany of failed government IT projects is like a roll call of grievous misfortune and “stupendous incompetence”, as a House of Commons Public Accounts Committee once said, referring to an IT ...

Let’s play a word-association game. Champions (Liverpool). Cyclists (smug). IT project (failure). Ask people what they know about tech projects, and they will probably say that they take longer than ...

Executives have poured billions into artificial intelligence, only to discover that most of those projects never make it past ...

I’m certain most of you have read, or heard, someone somewhere quoting statistics about the failure rate of IT projects. “Eighty percent of all IT projects fail,” they may have explained. For ...

Encourage open communication and accountability. Implement pilot programs with clear guardrails. Regularly assess and pivot projects based on ongoing feedback. Destigmatize failure by openly ...

Nino Letteriello is a data and project management leader, DAMA Award winner, WEF author, UN advisor, MIT lecturer & FIT Group co-founder. A significant percentage of data science projects continue to ...