{"id":4,"date":"2021-08-15T14:19:09","date_gmt":"2021-08-15T14:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paynecentral.com\/disinterested\/?p=4"},"modified":"2021-08-15T14:32:10","modified_gmt":"2021-08-15T14:32:10","slug":"the-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cseng.com\/disinterested\/2021\/08\/15\/the-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"The Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Testing accounts for about 60% of the effort associate with IT projects yet they only about 25% of the budget. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Standish Group\u2019s 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 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gartner.com\/en\/newsroom\/press-releases\/2020-01-15-gartner-says-global-it-spending-to-reach-3point9-trillion-in-2020\">Gartner, 2020<\/a>), that is a lot of wasted money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mckinsey.com\/business-functions\/mckinsey-digital\/our-insights\/delivering-large-scale-it-projects-on-time-on-budget-and-on-value#\">McKinsey<\/a> found that 17% of large IT project fail so spectacularly that they threaten the very existence of the company!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As projects continue to grow and development accelerates, the costs associated with testing is out of control. Alternatives need to be embraced. Transformational change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the typical executive doesn\u2019t want to talk about testing. Testing is boring. My goal here is to talk, in business terms, about why that needs to change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>References:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hyland.com\/en\/complete-view\/articles\/standard\/seventy-percent-not-successful\">https:\/\/www.hyland.com\/en\/complete-view\/articles\/standard\/seventy-percent-not-successful<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Testing accounts for about 60% of the effort associate with IT projects yet they only about 25% of the budget. The Standish Group\u2019s 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&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cseng.com\/disinterested\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cseng.com\/disinterested\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cseng.com\/disinterested\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cseng.com\/disinterested\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cseng.com\/disinterested\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cseng.com\/disinterested\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10,"href":"https:\/\/cseng.com\/disinterested\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions\/10"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cseng.com\/disinterested\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cseng.com\/disinterested\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cseng.com\/disinterested\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}