CHAOS or not?

The CHAOS reports from the Standish Group has become infamous, so much so that Sean Hanly made us promise to never quote the figures as evidence against the traditional models. However I recently found an interview that Deborah Hartmann at InfoQ did with the Standish Groups founder and chairman Jim Johnson. In the interview Deborah asks some really interesting questions and Jim’s answers seems straightforward and honest. The relatively fresh statistics presented is interesting, but most interesting of all is the list of success factors, where it is obvious that the Agile values and methods addresses most of the top 10 with concrete techniques.