Stakeholders, consultants and project managers have all made up their personal opinion about the ultimate causes of failure of IT projects. Here are some good ways to make sure a project will not take off! (In no particular order):
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Ignore the environment (in particular stakeholders)
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Introduce a new technology in a market too quickly
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Don’t worry about establishing fall back options
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Don’t nurture new ideas
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Don’t bother organizing feasibility studies
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Never admit project is a failure
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Over manage project managers and their team
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Don’t worry about conducting post-failure reviews
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Don’t bother to understand project trade-offs
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Make sure that a project is run by a weak and inexperienced leader
SOURCE: Pinto, Jeffrey K.; Kharbanda, Om P.: How to fail in project management - without really trying; in: Business Horizons, Vol. 39 (1996), No. 4, pp. 45-53.
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