List of Tables

Chapter 1: Software Development Project Failures

Table 1.1: Summary data on software project–abandonment

Chapter 2: Software Project Characteristics

Table 2.1: A comparison of software project risk factors vs. abandoned-project risk factors

Chapter 3: Factors Critical to Abandoned Software Projects

Table 3.1: Impact of abandonment factors on software development stages

Table 3.2: Software development stage and critical abandonment factors

Table 3.3: Dominant factors in abandonment-factor categories

Table 3.4: Software development stage by abandonment-factor category

Chapter 4: Socioorganizational Factors and Abandoned Projects

Table 4.1: Number of projects abandoned (1982–1986)

Table 4.2: Type of project abandonment

Table 4.3: Stages of project abandonment

Table 4.4: Estimated total project budget

Table 4.5: Estimated total project duration

Table 4.6: Project participants

Table 4.7: Project departments

Table 4.8: Project managers

Table 4.9: Abandoned-project classification

Table 4.10: Summary of twelve abandonment factors

Table 4.11: Socioorganizational factors (extracted from table 4.10)

Chapter 5: Technical Factors and Abandoned Projects

Table 5.1: Technical factors (extracted from table 4.10)

Chapter 6: Economic Factors and Abandoned Projects

Table 6.1: Economic factors (extracted from table 4.10)

Chapter 7: User Perspectives on Software Development Failures

Table 7.1: Summary of factors contributing to software development failure

Chapter 8: Postabandonment Review—Learning from Abandoned Projects

Table 8.1: Formal postmortems carried out in the IS department or elsewhere in the organization

Table 8.2: The circumstances of projects abandonment documented

Table 8.3: More than one project abandoned for the same reason?

Table 8.4: Number of projects abandoned for more or less the same reason

Table 8.5: Does organization keep records of abandoned projects?

Table 8.6: Those in IS department of organization with access to abandoned-project records

Table 8.7: Those in IS department or organization who consult the abandoned-project records

Table 8.8: Duration of abandoned-project records kept in organizations

Table 8.9: Abandoned-project records used to minimize chances of repeating problems

Table 8.10: Abandoned-project records used to better plan or manage new projects

Table 8.11: Abandoned-project records beneficial in establishing management procedures in new projects

Table 8.12: Contribution of abandoned-project records to the success of new projects