It Failure Rate

Blekinge Institute of Technology School of Management Master Thesis
Master Thesis of MSc. Business Administration

High I.T. Failure Rate: A Management Prospect

Author: Mazhar Tajammal Hashmi mtha05@student.bth.se

Supervisor: Dr. Peter Stevrin pst@bth.se

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Acknowledgement

First and foremost, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to my (Allah) for blessing me with the potential and ability to work on this master thesis. Then I would like to thank my beloved parents without whom I would have never been blessed with the opportunities that I have been given in my life. I would like to thank my supervisor Prof. Dr. Peter Stevrin for giving me an opportunity to work on this interesting topic and for providing me great guidance and support in this research work. I would like to express my special thanks to my Program Manager Anders Nilsson for being so helpful in times of need. I am grateful to Univ. Asst. MS. MSc. Zeeshan Ahmed for working with me as my external advisor and I learned a lot from his experience and guidance. I am thanking my family and friends for their endless love and corporation especially from Salman Khan and Haseeb Saleem. Without their support, this work would not have been possible.

Mazhar Tajammal Hashmi

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Abstract
Software industry is growing day by day and software is going more complex and diverse with increase in cost and rate of failure. This increase in size and complexity of software projects has negative impact on the software productivity, schedule and effort. Organizations are demanding high quality products to increase their productivity and profits. It is common that they are facing some serious problems even after spending a large sum of money. So, its alarming situation and the concerned parties should take effective steps to resolve software project failure problem. Buyers have some options available in market with low budget but in this case no guarantee for the product quality. Above all this,... [continues]

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