Goalposts keep moving, developers complain.

UK business managers are making life harder for their development teams, according to a recent survey of IT staff at development tools company Merant's annual user conference. Three quarters of respondents said that 'moving goalposts' was the primary reason for development project failure. Other reasons included: changes to the development team (19%), unrealistic timescales (60%), poor internal communication (44%) and, the refreshingly honest response, "loss of momentum" (39%).