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?