Involve Users or Fail
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Involve Users or Fail: An IT Project Case Study from East Africa
Repeated surveys, and most notably those by the Standish Group, suggest that a substantial proportion of Information Technology (IT) projects fail. The literature suggests that this is in part due to a lack of user involvement in the project. The authors’ research describes the case study of a major IT system implementation project in East Africa. The paper reports on the results of both an onl...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Information Technology Project Management
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1938-0232,1938-0240
DOI: 10.4018/ijitpm.2013100103