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NASCIO Releases Findings From State IT Project Management Survey

Billions of dollars are spent on government IT projects every year and state CIOs have the bulk of responsibility for them. Although many have good track records, project success rates have great room for improvement. States have demonstrated that applying the discipline of project management (PM) can greatly increase project success, but there is still much to be done. This premise served as the impetus behind the National Association of State Chief Information Officers’ (NASCIO) 2005 survey of state information technology (IT) project management practices.

Findings from the survey have just been released in Discipline Succeeds: Findings from the NASCIO State IT Project Management Assessment. Thirty-four state project management offices participated in the self-assessment from August-September of 2005. The trends found in their responses set the baseline for state IT project management progress. The report can be seen on NASCIO’s new IT project management webpage https://www.nascio.org/nascioCommittees/projectManagement . An executive summary is included at the beginning of the document.

Throughout the report, several core themes emerge as recommendations for success of state IT initiatives:

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