Standish Group CHAOS TOP 10 - 2001

Most information shown, created by the Standish Group, about the core elements of project success / failure base themselves on the information dating from 1994.
The Standish Group has renewed their Chaos top 10, as can be downloaded here.

In short it contains the following:
1. CHAOS TOP 10

• Executive Support
• User Involvement
• Experienced Project Manager
• Clear Business Objectives
• Minimized Scope (instead of small iterations)
• Standard Software Struture
• Firm Basic Requirements
• Formal Methodology
• Reliable Estimates
• Other

2. The kind of skills that are required for each role, to tackle the top 10

3. Ingredients for a succesful project:

• Reducing Requirements to the bare minimum
• Constant communication systems
• Standard infrastructure
• Good stakeholders
• Iterative development process
• Project management tooling
• Adherence to key roles