Often in the IT industry publications one reads about horror stories regarding failed projects. Most often the failure is due to bad or misaligned requirements.

A May 2007 CIO magazine article presents studies about how agile development works and can help in aligning technology with business needs/vision.

I am sure you have been in a situation where you need to open a MS Project file but do not have MS Project. Now, you have easy solulion. It is called "OpenProj", an open source, freeware software by Projity is a desktop replacement of Microsoft Project. OpenProj has equivalent functionality, a familiar user interface and even opens existing MSProject files. OpenProj is interoperable with Project, with a Gantt Chart and PERT chart etc. Check it out at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/openproj/