Benchmarks and Assessments

Our Benchmarks and Assessments are designed to find the single most important item that will improve your project performance.

CHAOS University Courses

The Standish offers three types of online educational courses. Our courses are designed specifically for busy people.

Notice: Dezider Users

The Dezider application has been rewritten and is now much simpler to use to help you benchmark your decision latency. 

CHAOS Report 2020

The Standish Group announces the availability of the next CHAOS Report, which will be formally released in January 2020.  

Notice: Café CHAOS Readers

Café CHAOS content has been moved and will now be accessible only for members of The Standish Group. Fortunately, the Standish Group is offering free basic membership. 

Notice: Cafe CHAOS is Moving

Notice: Café CHAOS Readers: Café CHAOS content has been moved and will now be accessible only for members of The Standish Group. Fortunately, the Standish Group is offering free basic membership. 

RIP: H. Ross Perot

I only met Ross once. It was the winter of 1974. While my memories of our encounter are somewhat of a misty colored haze, my general impression was...

Flow Defined

Flow is a method to manage software development, implementation, and maintenance through a continuous process.

Go with the Flow

Project managers will always have a place, but maybe not in the development of software.

Mentoring by Augmented Reality

s the new general manager for the Asian territory of the Sword Elevator company, Christina Yip was very concerned,,,