ECM, 87
E-commerce, 25
Economic factors
analysis of Fortune 500
failed projects data, 137-140, 142, 143, 150-153
contributing to software failures, 6, 65-68, 69, 74
learning from postabandonment reviews, 200, 218
Edmond, Gail, 119
Edstrom, A., 154
Eischen, K., 12
Elam, J. J., 245
Empirical data, of Fortune 500 companies failed projects, 6, 13, 73, 85
Empty Car Management (ECM), 87
End users, role in requirements determination, 62, 63
as contributors of economic factors, 153 (see also Users)
as contributors of socioorganizational factors, 82, 83, 85, 100, 101
Engineering failures, 189
Engineering profession, 190, 254
Enterprise Resource Planning. See Hershey Foods' ERP project
Ethernet, 88
Evolutionary approach, 7
abandoned project risks, 42-44
case analysis of economic factors of projects failures, 132, 140-142
case analysis of socioorganizational factors of failed projects, 88, 92, 93, 96, 99, 101
case analysis of technical factors of projects failures, 108, 111, 113, 115, 116, 120, 125, 127
critical abandonment factors, 51-54
empirical analysis of Fortune 500
failed projects, 73, 74, 80-83
on learning from project failures, 201, 202
on project failures and aftermath, 239, 244, 247, 252, 253
on project risks and uncertainties, 38, 39
on types of abandonment, 17-22
user perspectives analysis of CODIS project, 154, 197, 199
Executive involvement, 246-248. See also Senior management involvement
Executive support and commitment, factor in project failures, 53, 61, 64, 65
on project failures and aftermath, 240 (see also Senior management)
socioorganizational factor contributor, 84, 96, 97, 99, 100, 104, 106
sociotechnical factor contributor, 107