How To Fail Your Next Project

When good projects go bad...

Have you read or noticed how many IT projects fail? They fail in all kinds of ways; budget blowouts; failure to achieve the business goals; lack of business uptake or just plain old crummy software.

I have to admit that I’ve been on board on some “Titanic” projects myself; they could not possibly fail and yet we all ended up scrambling for the life rafts. I started to jot down a list of reasons I could see for project failure. I guess I could have been scribbling disaster reasons until they closed the café...

Here’s hoping these selections help you on your next project!
Read Stewart Baird's article on InformIT for more...