Why IT Projects Still Fail
CIO, Monday, October 27th, 2025
Even with strategic alignment among IT and business leaders, technical and transformational initiatives still fall flat at an unacceptable rate. Here's how IT can learn from its mistakes.
IT organizations have worked hard to get away from the problems that plagued past project delivery processes.
They've replaced expansive scopes, the waterfall methodology, and long timelines with iterative development, the agile approach, and multiweek sprints, hoping to avert the big failures that have littered IT's history.
Those changes have indeed helped, but many IT projects still fail.