Projects fail, sometimes spectacularly. Search the Web for articles on major project failures;

numerous articles should be readily available. Find and review articles on approximately 10 major project failures during the past decade, then do the following:

a. List the project failures that you found, and describe them.

b. What was the cost of each project failure?

c. What were the consequences of each project failure?

d. Categorize the reason(s) for each project’s failure based upon the causes listed in this chapter.

e. What were the most common causes for the project failures?

f. In hindsight, how many of the project failures were avoidable?

g. What is the most important lesson that new systems analysts can learn from these project failures?