HP, together with the HP and the Economist Research Unit (EIU), conducted an extremely interesting
study : how many IT projects are completed on time. The results are shown separately by country, and these are very interesting results.
Of course, the point is not so much in the indiscipline of the programmers themselves, as in the lack of professionalism of the managers. It is managers who are always to blame for the deadlines, not the programmers. Actually, an analysis of the reasons for the delay of projects (under Habrakat) speaks about this.
Sweden - 44%
Switzerland - 24%
Czech Republic - 20%
Germany - 19%
Denmark - 16%
Great Britain - 11%
Israel - 8%
Finland - 8%
France - 6%
Belgium - 4%
Spain - 4%
Italy - 4%
Netherlands - 4%
Russia - 4%The indicated percentage is the share of IT specialists among all respondents in a given country who said that in the last three years absolutely all projects had surrendered to them in time.
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As we see, in Russia only 4% of firms can boast of an ideal discipline. In fairness, we note that this gloomy result was shown not only by Russia, but also by several other countries, and Russia occupies the last place exclusively alphabetically. However, this is not easier.
A survey of IT specialists across Europe revealed that 51% of them are absolutely not responsible for disrupting the project deadlines. For comparison, in Asia this figure is 33%, and in America - 22%.
According to the survey results, the most frequent reasons for the delay of projects are outsourcing, changing priorities in the middle of the project and poor coordination between managers.