New Study: Dynamic Staffing Model Reduces Failure Rates for Distributed Software Teams

A new report from Constellation Research finds that a more flexible staffing approach can reduce the failure rate of software projects from 70-plus percent to less than 10 percent, while also driving marked improvements in cost efficiency (30 percent) and project satisfaction (3.6X). The report states that distributed work could change the nature of enterprise IT and software development in the 2020s as profoundly as cloud computing did over the past two decades. The Constellation study is based on detailed data supplied by Gigster from 190 digital projects and 1,161 sprints, conducted in 2018 and 2019 across Gigster’s client base. Highlighting a rapid evolution in the future of work, it points out that dynamic project staffing is spreading across the enterprise, with 72 percent of all such projects happening in large enterprise and IT professional services firms, up from 52 per cent just two years earlier.