Why Information Technology Projects Fail In Pakistan?

Project Management

The Industry of Information Technology has grown many folds in Pakistan in last few years. With the expansion of IT industry, there are many IT projects that fail and this failure brings huge amount of loss to the organization. Keeping in mind this failure of projects, the researcher wanted to find out the main reasons of these failure. According to the brochure published by Ministry of Science and Information Technology (2016), the Ministry claimed that 4 out of 10 projects fail and it brought huge loss with it. The researcher wanted to find out the reasons of these failure, so he studied the existing literature that describes the reasons of the failure of IT projects. After going through the literature, the researcher listed 21 reasons of the failure of IT projects in Pakistan. Questionnaire was developed and the researcher asked the respondents to rank and score these reasons. Criticality score and criticality index were used to rank the reasons of the failure. After analysis, top 5 reasons of Information Technology projects failures were identified. These reasons are listed in descending order i.e (i) lack of use of right technology (ii) lack of requirements gathering (iii) inability of Project Manager (iv) little testing (v) poor stakeholders handling. This research is only about the identification of reasons of IT projects failure and the researcher did not measure the project failure.

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