Another day and yet another stupid story written by ZDNet.
The absolute nit picking that goes on across this site against Microsoft is bordering on being childish.
If the proportion of negative articles on here for other products / companies was the same then I wouldn't have an issue but rather than say something is good or great at Microsoft, ZDNet simply trolls around looking for anything negative about them no matter how small and insignificant or out of context it might be.
As the first post has said like anything it depends upon whether people fumble around with something from scratch on their own or people seek best practices before they do it.
We had an external SharePoint website built in 4 days by an Australian Microsoft Partner and a more complex internal one built in 16 days with workflow, InfoPath forms and some other things and we had no problems and it was done on budget.
Oh and by the way was the study normalised agaist the usual delays experienced on complex IT projects or are the results of this study just representative of the norm anyway?
We used Avanade and Microsoft on a AUD$12m project and whilst it was 6 months late (due entirely to the Project Manager who was replaced midway due to his imcompetance) in the end the project was brought in on budget. All projects I have known about or worked on which have resulted in delays have almost always been caused by human factors such as poor project management, scope creep or lack of detailed functional and technical documentation up front.
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