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Bethany Schoenick PMP Montgomery, Al, United States
Hello all,
I am looking for the statistics for the following:

• Project Delays
• Missed Milestones
• Lack of Integration
• Lack of Integration than leads to lack of Impact Analysis
• Budget Over runs
• Project failure to deliver on objectives

I've done a search on "project failure", "program failure", "reasons projects fail", project failure statistics" - I've found articles that discuss reasons for failure, reasons why you should have project managers, reasons why you should have program managers but no articles that present hard numbers. Any points in the right direction would be hugely appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
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Michael Schubert Senior Manager Employee Portal Development| McKesson Cumming, Ga, United States
The Standish Group report is a little old, but still probably the most cited report with the type of statistics you are looking for. It can be viewed at http://www.projectsmart.co.uk/docs/chaos-report.pdf . Do some Googling for that report and you will find many, many discussions, rebuttals, etc.

Good Luck!
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Don Kim PROJECT-TO-PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT EXPERT| Seeking opportunities Sacramento, CA, United States
The US GAO (Government Accountability Office) will typically have detailed reports about project failures. Many of these will involved way over budget and time delayed government IT projects that are quite eye opening.
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Naomi Caietti Senior Project Manager | ePMO | Higher Education | Healthcare & IT| Linkedin.com/In/NaomiCaietti
Bethany:
Here are a few more resources.

IT Complexity Crisis
http://www.objectwatch.com/whitepapers/ITComplexityWhitePaper.pdf
Article on Report:
http://edge.papercutpm.com/annual-cost-of-project-failure/

~Naomi
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Sunando Chaudhuri Director - PMO & Governance| Modon Dist: Burdwan, West Bengal, India
http://www.it-cortex.com/Stat_Failure_Cause.htm - The results are a bit old but still pretty accurate. I had done a presentation on reasons why projects failed and collected some data from various sources and these numbers are fairly accurate.

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