


Section II: Classic CHAOS provides the familiar charts and information generally found in CHAOS reports.Specific attention has been given how poor decision latency and emotional maturity level affect outcomes and the success ladder benchmark. Section I: Factors of Success describes the three factors (good sponsor, good team and good place) the Standish Group has determined most seriously affect the outcome of a software project.The book contains ten sections and an epilogue: You have probably seen some of those yellow-red-green charts showing e.g., challenged, failed and successful project percentages. Most of the charts come from the CHAOS database of over 50,000 in-depth project profiles of the previous 5 years. These reports include classic CHAOS data in different forms with many charts.

Every two years the Standish Group publish a new CHAOS Report. A few weeks ago, I received the latest report from the Standish Group – CHAOS 2020: Beyond Infinity – written by Jim Johnson.
