Having been within a project that failed big time, maybe £10 million down the drain and lots of jobs lost,from CIO down it's not an easy call.

What I'd probably observe from the article and many of the posts is that the projects were not managed correctly - however that's an easy statement to make, and I can draw on my above example where the DBA team expressed their concerns , well we actually said the implementation was unworkable, what actually happened is that we were told to get on and do as we were told or face the sack.

The pressures and reputations of too many are at risk in a large project and often too many decisions are made without input from the "right people". On a simple level how many DBA's get to have to install database applications which don't work, are full of security holes etc. etc. but were no part of the selection process?

I was part of a BI selection process where we rejected a major BI vendors tools, the Vendor took exception and attempted to get the decision overturned by going to the Managing Director , the argument the Vendor used was that they did not expect to present their products to technical people being more used to presenting to boards of directors. So for a major application around £1 million it should have been decided by non technical people !!

Very tricky and to be honest I'm surpised some companies manage to stay in business and it may explain why IT is so often seen as the enemy within a business.