IT Project Failure Rates: Facts and Reasons

Question 1

Read the article, “HPE Business Value Dashboard.” Then, find an organization that has adopted
a real-time dashboard for its internal use Within the last three years. Do not repeat examples from
the textbook or that have been posted by other students. Please respond to the following:

What are the most important parts of this dashboard?

How do these parts help the business managers? How do they help the individual contributors?
Have real-time dashboards replaced the traditional business report? Justify your answer.

Question 2

A small but fast-growing company has called you in as a consultant to help with their IT
infrastructure. When they first started, they put their business data in the cloud and changed their
business processes to fit their SaaS. Now, they want to know if they should customize their SaaS
to fit their business processes, or keep changing their business processes to fit their SaaS.
Propose a set of 3-5 initial questions you would ask them to help you prepare your
recommendation. Be sure to explain why you are asking each question

Question 3

The purpose of project management and the SDLC is to increase successful software
implementation. The article titled “IT Project Failure Rates: Facts and Reasons” makes it clear
that a lot of projects still fail.

Identify an IT system development failure that occurred within the last 2 years. Do not repeat an
example from earlier in the course or one that has been posted by another student.

In your initial post this week, analyze which project management concepts were not respected
by the project managers and where in the SDLC these lapses occurred.

Describe how you might have spoken up had you been on the steering committee