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The Standish report: does it really describe a software crisis?

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Volume 49 , Issue 8 (August 2006) table of contents
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COLUMN: Practical programmer table of contents

Pages: 15 - 16

Year of Publication: 2006

ISSN:0001-0782

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Robert L. Glass

Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia.

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

Reconsidering the relevancy of a frequently cited report on software project failures.

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	1	Blum, B.I. Some very famous statistics. The Software Practitioner (Mar. 1991).
	2	Robert L. Glass, IT Failure Rates--70% or 10-15%?, IEEE Software, v.22 n.3, p.112-111, May 2005 [doi>10.1109/MS.2005.66]
	3	Jorgensen, M. and Molokken, K. How large are software cost overruns? A review of the 1994 Chaos Report. Information and Software Technology 48, 4 (Apr. 2006).
	4	Standish Group International. The Chaos Report; www.standishgroup.com/sample_ research/PDFpages/Chaos1994.pdf.

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