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Multi-million dollar strategic IT Projects fail at an alarming rate. Is there a secret to stop the problems?
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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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