Top 15 reasons – Why Software Projects Fail?

Project Management, Test Management


Top 15 Reasons – Why Software Projects Fail?

Why Software Project Fails

Why Software Project Fails

  • Poor Communication
  • Lack of Collaboration
  • Lack of Leadership
  • Lack of Executive Support
  • Choosing the wrong Tech Stack
  • Technology Incompetence
  • Lack of Non-functional requirements
  • Lack of getting faster feedback
  • Failure to address feedback
  • Lack of requirements
  • Solving the wrong problem
  • No feasibility analysis
  • Lack of planning – Planning the project backwards from a deadline.
  • Move Testing towards the end – or even skip the testing
  • No Retrospectives or not working on retrospective action items.


Make Daily Stand-Up / Scrum Meeting effective

Project Management


Few tips to make your daily scrum meetings effective.First, let’s understand the goals of daily scrum meeting:
1. Allow the team to inspect and adapt daily.
2. Allow the team to share progress with each other every day.
3. Allow the team to surface blocks to each other every day.

Every day, at an agreed time and place, the team stands in a circle and reports three things:
1. What did I do since yesterday’s meeting? (These are Accomplishments)
2. What will I do by tomorrow’s meeting? (These are Goals)
3. What is blocking me or slowing me down? (These are Obstacles)

Sprint Team’s focus should be on the following-
– What we did/What will we be doing to meet the sprint goals.

– Remember that stand-up is not a place where you are giving your status to your project manager/scrum master. Its a ceremony where you are informing the team that how are you contributing to meeting the teams/sprint goals. DO not turn stand-ups into 1:1 chats with your managers. Whatever you say should generate some value for the team

There should not be any discussion hour debate on any features. Everyone should be in listening mode.

The stand-up duration should be 15 minutes maximum.

Hope this helps.