Looking Past the Frameworks
Static Project Outcome Results The way I read this chart, the success rate of software projects didn’t significantly improve between 2006 and 2016. It’s a 36.5±4.5% success rate over the last 20 years with a minor positive trend, and a 20.5±3.5% failure rate over the same timeframe. The success rate improves in two big jumps in 1994 and in 2004; but stays relatively stable otherwise.
But that 2006-2016 timeframe saw the introduction of a number of frameworks aimed at improving velocity or team success: Agile (2001), DevOps (2010ish), SAFe (2005), Team Topologies (2019), Spotify (2012), etc.