Project Management Disasters
Studies have shown that have indicated that that 68% of IT projects fail. Gathering examples of IT project failures may not a very hard task. What is hard is to get a fair assessment of the issues and determine the extent of the failure. What is even harder is to get all the stakeholders to agree the cause of the failures and where the responsibilities lie. Organizations are known to have high expectations of Project managers. Project Managers are considered to be bright, very experienced, motivated and knowledgeable in the subject area. At initiation, a project is deemed strategic and most often the best of the resources are generally pulled into the project. And frequently if we look at the statistics - projects fail, thereby demonstrating that the best of the ingredients do not make broth that is good enough! Evidence that IT project failure is not just occasional is best indicated with projects that involve "public money". When the budget is higher and funding an...