The Standish Group, drawing from a database of 50,000 development projects, has found that for development projects that exceed $100 million in labor costs, only 2% are successful, meaning on-time and within budget.
Another 51% are considered challenged or over budget, behind schedule or didn’t meet user expectations.
The rest, 47%, are seen as outright failures, said Johnson.
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