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The Business Value of IT |
Very often when we have found ourselves forever separated from what we had intended to achieve, we have already, on our way, found something else worth desiring.
—Goethe, Maxims
If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never.
—Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or
In 1995 the Standish Group released a report, known as to as the Chaos Report, with the spectacular claim that only 16.2% of software development projects are fully successful, finish on time, and stay on budget. They said that 31.1% are cancelled before they finish, and 52.7% cost 189% of ...
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