The Methods & Tools newsletter has just released in its html archive
section the article "Project Failure Prevention: 10 Principles for
Project Control". It is now well-known and well-documented that far too
many projects fail totally or partially, both in engineering generally
and software engineering. Everybody has some opinions about this. This
paper offers some of Tom Gilb's opinions and originality to the
discussion. The basic premises in this paper are as follows:
* We specify our requirements unclearly;
* We do not focus enough on ensuring that the system design meets the
requirements.

http://www.methodsandtools.com/archive/archive.php?id=56