IT project failures - typical causes and remedies

Look around and you will find numerable resources that tell you how to successfully manage a business transformation project involving IT. And yet, the percentage of projects that fail i.e. do not deliver upon their intended objective is quite high. A recent article appearing in the CIO magazine does a good job of explaining why these failures occur and how to avoid them. The link to the same is given below.

http://www.cio.com/article/3211485/project-management/why-it-projects-still-fail.html

In my opinion the cause of a majority of these failures can still be traced to non-technology issues such as:-

• lack of clear & measurable objectives for a project,

• insufficient resources being made available for the project team's disposal,

• lack of buy-in from all stakeholders,

• less than requisite involvement of project sponsor and senior management in the project monitoring activities,

• inadequate analysis of inter-dependencies with other projects, etc.

I guess this primarily happens when the people and process dimensions are considered secondary to the technology being deployed. Have a read through and let me know what you think.