IT Project FAILURE! How to Avoid this Fate

IT Project FAILURE!How to Avoid this Fate

Trey Crowduswww.ITProjectTurnaround.com

July 9, 2014

Multi-million dollar strategic IT Projects

fail at an alarming rate.

Is there a secret to stop the problems?

If you think this looks like your current IT Project …

And your next thought is to…

Excellent Choice; you are still here!

You may need to assess any of a number of areas that can be adding to the problems on the project.

What do you do now?

Personnel Requirements Use Cases Test Plans Budget Schedule Vendor Status Reports

Change Management Technology Infrastructure Technical Specs Communication External View Executives

Assessment Time!

Working through this list is, indeed, a tremendous amount of work – So what's the next step?

Two key components of SUCCESS:

Requirements

Communication

And What do Clear, Concise & Complete Requirements

really mean?

Three Questions

1) Can the client describe the deliverable that would meet the requirement?

2) Does the Development and Test team understand what to deliver to meet (or exceed) the requirement?

3) Is the deliverable what the client really wants?

Requirements are Two Things Only

The Fundamental building blocks

– for the deliverables from the Project Team.

The Definition of success

– for your enterprise strategic IT Project.

Your normal Project meeting?

Therefore: Solving communication issues can be the greatest obstacle in a project.

In a project turnaround, sides or cliques may be established and communication may be non-existent between the client and the vendors.

And authentic communication between all groups will lead to the ability to collaboratively resolve all issues, which leads to a successful project.

Definition of Failure in Three Words:

Us Vs Them

New Communication Rules

Discuss problems and resolve issuesDon’t avoid the “elephant in the room” Document decisions Listen and then, continue listening

Celebrate Every Success and Milestone!

BudgetSchedule

ScopeQuality

And your Project can start to move back on track.

As the requirements and communication issues are addressed, then these issues become easier to resolve.

And Remember ...

All IT Projects go off-track one time or another, the trick is to get them back on track, and to keep them on schedule, in scope, and on (or under) budget ....

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Or contact Trey Crowdus at: tcrowdus@wc3enterprises.com 512-522-3460 Twitter: @TreyCrowdus Linkedin: http://goo.gl/ihkJ5P

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