Here is an excellent requirements report you might find interesting. The Business Analysis Benchmark report presents the findings from surveys of over 100 companies and definitive statistics on the importance and impact of business requirements on enterprise success with technology projects. If you're interested you can check out the full study at http://www.iag.biz/images/resources/iag%20business%20analysis%20benchmark%20-%20full%20report.pdf
Hi,
This is a really interesting report so many thanks for that.
Has any analysis been done on the method and approach adopted by projects verses their probable success etc? Did the survey that was done cover this info?
That is, is there a matrix (probably) of project type/characteristics and the best methods and approaches to use as measured by predicted project outcome?
Guy
I am glad you are enjoying the report!
One point that emerged from this research was that the different methodologies had immaterial performance differences for any given level of requirements definition and management maturity. The study finds that changing development methods - in the absence of also improving requirements competence in the areas of process, techniques, staff, technology, organization and deliverables - only nominally improved or reduced overall success rates on projects.
Not sure I understand this: the first sentence seems to say that the method used on a project makes no material difference to project success. This is really interesting - I expect every method evangelist would challenge this on the grounds their particular method improves the chances of project success. Which methods were used by the projects in the survey? And as there is confusion over method and approach, do the methods in the survey cover such things as Agile?
The second sentence seems to imply that only improving "requirements competence" makes a difference. What is "requirements competence" and how is it measured? What is the causal relationship between improving requirements competence and project success?
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