Project Failure
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Are your IT projects a house of cards?
Techguide Organizational cultures that prioritize business value over mechanical project execution, will prevent IT folks from spinning business benefits to get their project approved--and doomed for failure.
Tags: IT project management, Project management, Budgeting/cost control, Business Benefit, Card, appraisal, Michael Krigsman, Management Practice, Sommer, software
Five reasons to kill IT projects
Techguide A recent study highlighted the top five reasons IT experts who killed a project gave for terminating projects prior to completion. Here's some insight on the five.
Tags: Project management, IT project management, Project, Survey, business strategy, Michael Krigsman, IT governance, CIO, Strategic Planning, software
Debating Forrester Research: Service providers and failure
Techguide A blog post by the analyst, which pushes virtually all blame for IT failures onto technology buyers, may have provided a narrow view of the dynamics in project management.
Tags: Project management, IT project management, Forrester Research Inc., Project, Consulting, Michael Krigsman, IT Devil, software, CEO, knowledge
Nine-year Iridium bankruptcy saga over for Motorola
News A judge has ruled Motorola does not have to pay damages of US$4 billion over the failure of its Iridium satellite venture.
Tags: Mobile/Wireless, Legal, Iridium, Satellite, Motorola Inc., Bankruptcy, phone, network, U.S., project failure
10 best practices for successful project management
Techguide The right mix of planning, monitoring and controlling can make the difference in completing a project on time, on budget, and with high quality results. Here are some guidelines to help.
Tags: Project management, IT project management, Exchange, CFO, Project, Risk, project manager, CIO, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Exchange Server
Seven (nasty) truths about IT spending
Techguide An article discusses harsh realities associated with out-of-control IT costs. While cost containment is integral to reducing failed IT projects, Draconian inflexibility is not the way to go.
Tags: IT project management, Cost control, IT budgeting, IT-spending, help desk, Harvard Business Review, Michael Krigsman, CIO, CEO, project failure
Chuck Norris Syndrome and IT project failure
Techguide Some firms want to improve business operations without change or cost--amazingly, such attitudes are common and underlie many project failures.
Tags: IT project management, Project management, Twitter, Consulting, Michael Krigsman, CEO, consultant, consulting company, beverage, project failure
First-time project managers need failures
Techguide One of the greatest impediments to first-time project managers' success is their need to succeed. There are three things they really need--and early success isn't one of them.
Tags: IT project management, Project management, Training, Paul Glen, project manager, career, IT administration, North America, information technology, consultant
Study: 68 percent of IT projects fail
Techguide A new report, notes that success in 68 percent of technology projects is "improbable". Are well-defined requirements the key to successful projects?
Tags: IT project management, Project management, Computer Associates International Inc., Project, business analysis, Consulting, Michael Krigsman, software, CEO, information technology
Mandatory open source 'too risky' for Australia
News Making the use of open-source software compulsory within government could overstretch the industry and lead to disaster, Australian politicians fear.
Tags: Linux, Open source
Project failures are less common than you think
Insight Whether your project succeeds or fails depends largely on how you and your company define success and failure. Take a look at what goes into creating that definition and then reevaluate your own project success and failure rates.
Poor scope-management practices could precipitate project failure
Insight Project management does not begin and end with defining and planning a project. If you don't invoke scope-change management, your project's success could be in jeopardy.
Seven fundamentals of IT project success
Techguide These points cover areas such as conflicting agendas, multiple perspectives as well as a range of business-oriented conditions.
Tags: Leadership techniques, IT project management, Project management, Software Implementation, CEO, software, Information Technology, Project, project manager, Consulting
Upper management ignores overwhelmed e-mail server
Insight How do you persuade upper management to allow the setting of limits on e-mail storage or to approve an upgrade to your e-mail system?
The truth about zombie projects
Techguide Zombie projects are failures that won't die because they are a hassle to fix. But anyone capable of killing such a project is likely to be able to manage a complex project successfully.
Tags: IT project management, Project management, Project, Tool, Consulting, Michael Krigsman, CEO, blog, consulting company, team
