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This week we officially released the CHAOS Manifesto 2014: Value versus Success & orthogonal. This CHAOS Manifesto is unlike previous CHAOS Manifestos.
It is not just a subset of the online version of the CHAOS Chronicles, known as the CHAOS Knowledge Center (CKC). Rather, CHAOS Manifesto 2014 offers an orthogonal view of the CHAOS Knowledge Center and focuses on project value versus project success. The Standish Group is very excited about changing the conversation from success to value. While the last 21 years CHAOS research successful project as on time, on budget, and on target, also known as the “triple constraints” or the “iron triangle.” For the last five years, however, we have also been studying a parallel track that turns out to be orthogonal to success. Rather than measure projects by the expected triple constraints (cost, time, and quality) we came up with a value measurement system. We have learned that much of what we do to ensure a successful project outcome is counter to creating value from your project investments.
This is called the Success versus Value Orthogonal. In the report we show a graphic of a compass with relationship between value, success, failure and worthless. Value is at the top of the compass (north) and success is at the right side of the compass (east) or 90 degrees from value. This is the meaning of orthogonal. CHAOS Manifesto 2014 details why success is often in conflict with true value, and describes a better way to increase the value of your project investments.
In this value-based approach to project management we recommend SAFE projects, not because they are without risk (and some will fail, but that’s OK), but because they are simple, absorbent, fast, and economical. As part of our Value-based PM approach, CHAOS Manifesto 2014 highlights 20 “rules” based on the Success versus Value Orthogonal. In CHAOS Manifesto 2014 we are exploring other measurements of project success to consider value and other metrics. We have spent the last several months coding our CHAOS database with these new metrics.
The current CHAOS database is coded with the following attributes: on time, on budget, on target (% requirements), and satisfied (very high to very low). We already coded the database with value (very high to very low) and how closely it meets the strategic corporate goal (precise to distant). The CHAOS Manifesto 2014 includes the Success Value Comparison Table.
The Success Value Comparison Table compares the success driven approach against the value driven approach. Some of the key attributes are scope of measurement, how they are managed, compliance/governance, budget process, project types, and project mix. Members can download the CHAOS Manifesto 2014: Value versus Success & orthogonal in the report section of the new.
Non-members can purchase the report in our.
David Rubinstein from SDTimes gives us a little preview of last, yet to be published, Chaos Report 2006 from Standish Group. Although numbers have improved I wouldn’t say they are anywhere close to where they should be. OK, we have two times more successful projects than 12 years ago. It’s still only one third overall. And the figure I’d like to know (but is not published in the article) is how many projects delivered 100% features they had intended to? This statistic is also a part of Chaos Report. Back in 1994 it was less than a half of projects labeled “successful” with pathetic 7,3% doing what they should do.
Yes, we are improving, that’s for sure. If we keep our pace I’ll probably see more than a half successes in projects before I become a grandpa. And successful project would look like a car without two wheels, if I’m lucky. Coming back to the Chaos Report 2006, thing which doesn’t change significantly over all those years is percentage of projects with time or budget overrun. It still oscillates around 50%.
It means that you’ll face this kind of projects by the way. But it also means that there’s common approval for overrunning deadlines and budgets. A couple of examples. Loving Day - Mat Johnson.epub.
One of our biggest customers, after choosing our offer was delaying the moment of signing the agreement for almost two months. Deadline remained unchanged and when we tired to move it further explaining that project start date was changed, we faced holy indignation. That way we formally lost almost the half of the time planned for our work. Of course we couldn’t make it and we slipped two and a half months and, what a surprise, it wasn’t a major problem. That way, it was perfectly OK. Another customer asked for offers for some video solution. Deadline for submitting the offer was really tight, because they wanted to implement solution within a quarter since request for proposal was issued.