The Standish Group International, Inc. or Standish Group is an independent international
IT research advisory firm founded in 1985, known from their reports about
information systems
An information system (IS) is a formal, sociotechnical, organizational system designed to collect, process, store, and distribute information. From a sociotechnical perspective, information systems are composed by four components: task, people ...
implementation projects in the public and private sector. The firm focuses on mission-critical software applications, especially focussing on failures and possible improvements in IT projects. The Standish Group has reported on subjects such as software:
commercial
Commercial may refer to:
* a dose of advertising conveyed through media (such as - for example - radio or television)
** Radio advertisement
** Television advertisement
* (adjective for:) commerce, a system of voluntary exchange of products and s ...
,
free, and
open source
Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use the source code, design documents, or content of the product. The open-source model is a decentralized so ...
; project management such as
critical chain project management; projects such as
Confirm Project, etc.
Authors
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* Jim Crear
* Lee Gesmer
* Jim Johnson
* Jennifer Lynch
* Hans Mulder
* Theo Mulder
* Lou Vianna
References
External links
Standish Group website
Information technology companies of the United States
American companies established in 1985
Technology companies established in 1985
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