Survey highlights lack of project control
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The majority of IT departments approach the management of their portfolio of projects in an uncoordinated and seemingly reckless fashion.
A survey of 400 European CIOs, CTOs and IT directors has highlighted a worrying trend - the majority of IT departments approach the management of their portfolio of projects in an uncoordinated and seemingly reckless fashion.
Out of the 84% of organisations using ad hoc methods to manage their IT projects, more than half said they still rely on manual tools such as spreadsheets, Gantt charts and whiteboards to oversee IT projects, according to the research commissioned by IT services management software vendor Compuware.
Three-quarters of the CXOs questioned admitted they were unable to provide other departments with any kind of automated analysis of the status of IT projects. And only 16% of organisations said they had real-time visibility into the status of their projects.
"It is astonishing that so many people are unable to provide valuable enterprise-wide business intelligence [on projects] and are at best performing guesswork on whether projects will be delivered on time, to specification and within budget guidelines and to ensure that projects remain relevant as business needs change," said Ayman Gabarin, vice president at Compuware in EMEA for IT Governance.
Mechanisms to identify, track and report the risk of missing deadlines and over-shooting budgets are also ad hoc at 78% of organisations. Given that, it is perhaps not surprising that over a third of respondents admitted that between 21% and 40% of their IT projects missed deadlines. In addition, one in four organisations reported that 41% to 60% of IT projects exceeded budget forecasts.
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