Your article reflects part of the reason IT projects fail (Escape the cull). There is too much focus on the IT part being critical to a project's success.

No projects are pure IT projects, they are business projects; IT is only one component. Effective benefits management is the key to project success. Involvement of the business, from strategy through to post-implementation review, is critical.

Projects that succeed do so because they also effectively manage the critical organisational and socio-technical components.

Until organisations wake up to the importance of these aspects, no matter how many Prince2 project managers are rolled off the production line, IT projects will continue to have a high failure rate.

Rob Sucher