IT Project Management: Infamous Failures, Classic Mistakes, and Best Practices

By Ryan Nelson, Mis Q Uarterly, E. Xecutive. MIS Q. Executive, 2007

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Citations in the corpus

• Research on information systems failures and successes: Status update and future directions (2014, background): “Nelson (2007) analyzed 99 IS projects and identified 36 classic mistakes which determine the likelihood that an IS fails.”
• Digital innovation: A review and synthesis (2019, background): “According to this view, which emerges from organizational change theories, designing an artifact when what is desired is a way of doing (Pentland & Feldman, 2008) may be one reason that digital innovation suffers from such high failure rates (Nelson, 2007).”