Testing accounts for about 60% of the effort associate with IT projects yet they only about 25% of the budget.
The Standish Group’s Chaos Report found that only 29% of IT implementations are successful. That means a full 70% were considered not successful. Given that worldwide we spend $3.9 trillion (Gartner, 2020), that is a lot of wasted money.
McKinsey found that 17% of large IT project fail so spectacularly that they threaten the very existence of the company!
As projects continue to grow and development accelerates, the costs associated with testing is out of control. Alternatives need to be embraced. Transformational change.
But the typical executive doesn’t want to talk about testing. Testing is boring. My goal here is to talk, in business terms, about why that needs to change.
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