Following on from my post yesterday, I was thinking about the main reasons a project might fail. I have a lot of friends in project management and it was interesting to get their opinions as well.
Here are the top responses we came up with:
- Too much change
- Benefits take too long to be realised
- Poor funding
- Untested assumptions
- Poor requirements gathering
- Senior sponsorship is weak or lacking altogether
- No risk planning or analysis
- Poor stakeholder analysis or management
- Over emphasis on technology
- Projects not focused on delivering benefits
- Lack of appropriate skills in the project team
I am sure there are lots and lots of other ones, but these are the trends that we have seen.
What other big reasons make projects fail?
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This entry was posted on Saturday, April 4th, 2009 at 8:00 pm and is filed under General.
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I’m sure you’ve already read the book “Mythical Man Month”, but here is a good wikipedia entry anyway which talks about some of the classic project problems that can occur: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month
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