Cancel projects that won’t deliver!
The prospect of having your project terminated, cancelled or axed (whatever sugar coated term you’d like to insert here) fills many a project manager with trepidation, maybe even a pervasive […]
The prospect of having your project terminated, cancelled or axed (whatever sugar coated term you’d like to insert here) fills many a project manager with trepidation, maybe even a pervasive […]
All too frequently technology projects/programmes fail to deliver. There are any number of reasons why this occurs. It might be due to unrealistic planning, inadequate change management or lack of […]
I’ve just had an interesting discussion today concerning project success. In particular around how success is perceived by the various stakeholders of the project. We all think we know what […]
Last year I wrote a blog post on “Impossible Projects” highlighting that “some projects carry such great risks that they should not start! But they do”. Once again, I was […]
As discussed in my earlier article, some programs and projects carry such great risks that they should not start! But they do. They start because there is a chance of […]
Project failure, not a subject that many like to discuss. I was doing some research for a UK Government client and came across some interesting facts: About one-third of projects […]
My client asked me today for a précis of what the decisive factors are for success and failure in projects. Given more thought there will be many factors, but these […]
The Standish Group, the US based IT project management research and consulting firm, released their 2009 CHAOS Report recently. This report tracks project failure rates across a broad range of […]