Comments on: Ten REAL Reasons Why IT Projects Fail http://www.simonstapleton.com/wordpress/2008/09/17/ten-real-reasons-why-it-projects-fail/?&owa_medium=feed&owa_sid= I Help You Become a Higher Performer, Get Promoted, and Better Paid Wed, 09 May 2012 18:37:39 +0100 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: simonstapleton http://www.simonstapleton.com/wordpress/2008/09/17/ten-real-reasons-why-it-projects-fail/comment-page-1/#comment-505 simonstapleton Thu, 06 Nov 2008 13:50:52 +0000 http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/?p=582#comment-505 @micronuts - that's a great point. I think to avoid bringing in the 'wrong people' - and therefore having the 'right' people is assessing their skills and behaviors, and this includes the owners too. Whole projects can fail if the competency of the owners are not up to standard. It's connected to the point I made recently about <a href="http://www.simonstapleton.com/wordpress/2008/10/30/do-you-consider-business-readiness-as-an-afterthought/" title="Do You Consider Business Readiness as an Afterthought?" rel="nofollow">Business Readiness</a>. Projects can deliver, but if the business owner isn't ready to receive (because of ill preparation or competency issues) then the whole house of cards collapses! @micronuts – that’s a great point. I think to avoid bringing in the ‘wrong people’ – and therefore having the ‘right’ people is assessing their skills and behaviors, and this includes the owners too. Whole projects can fail if the competency of the owners are not up to standard. It’s connected to the point I made recently about Business Readiness. Projects can deliver, but if the business owner isn’t ready to receive (because of ill preparation or competency issues) then the whole house of cards collapses!

]]> By: micronuts http://www.simonstapleton.com/wordpress/2008/09/17/ten-real-reasons-why-it-projects-fail/comment-page-1/#comment-504 micronuts Thu, 06 Nov 2008 10:02:53 +0000 http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/?p=582#comment-504 Just additional to your point, I believe that also most of the time, the person who take up the ownership have to be right attitude. Yes, you can be cool and passion to be learnt, but you need to remember too when you been apppoint or hire for specify role, you are mostly ready to know what it need to be carried on to be done and of course keep learning from time to time with right attitude :) I will not want to pay a staff to just for learning and not deliver hahahaa Just additional to your point, I believe that also most of the time, the person who take up the ownership have to be right attitude. Yes, you can be cool and passion to be learnt, but you need to remember too when you been apppoint or hire for specify role, you are mostly ready to know what it need to be carried on to be done and of course keep learning from time to time with right attitude :)
I will not want to pay a staff to just for learning and not deliver hahahaa

]]> By: Chris Mahan http://www.simonstapleton.com/wordpress/2008/09/17/ten-real-reasons-why-it-projects-fail/comment-page-1/#comment-259 Chris Mahan Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:46:25 +0000 http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/?p=582#comment-259 @simonstapleton: The rookie one didn't religiously follow the steps, but instead wavered in the customer wind like a loose helium balloon in the strom. The work breakdown structure was non-existent. But there is worse: the Proud yet Incompetent one. This one produced a prodigious amount of documents that contradicted each other. In both of those cases I ended up using my own system. See this post that describes it: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/122547/how-well-does-bugzilla-work-for-managing-scrum-projects#122726 @simonstapleton: The rookie one didn’t religiously follow the steps, but instead wavered in the customer wind like a loose helium balloon in the strom. The work breakdown structure was non-existent.

But there is worse: the Proud yet Incompetent one. This one produced a prodigious amount of documents that contradicted each other.

In both of those cases I ended up using my own system. See this post that describes it: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/122547/how-well-does-bugzilla-work-for-managing-scrum-projects#122726

]]> By: simonstapleton http://www.simonstapleton.com/wordpress/2008/09/17/ten-real-reasons-why-it-projects-fail/comment-page-1/#comment-258 simonstapleton Wed, 24 Sep 2008 09:46:05 +0000 http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/?p=582#comment-258 @Chris - can't disagree with you either. Have you ever experienced a rookie project manager yourself, and what was the result? @Chris – can’t disagree with you either. Have you ever experienced a rookie project manager yourself, and what was the result?

]]> By: Chris Mahan http://www.simonstapleton.com/wordpress/2008/09/17/ten-real-reasons-why-it-projects-fail/comment-page-1/#comment-255 Chris Mahan Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:33:08 +0000 http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/?p=582#comment-255 Can't disagree with anything there. I would only add that having an inexperienced project manager can lead to a project failure. Oh, and project with no project manager also have good chances to fail. Can’t disagree with anything there.

I would only add that having an inexperienced project manager can lead to a project failure.

Oh, and project with no project manager also have good chances to fail.

]]> By: Joe Lau http://www.simonstapleton.com/wordpress/2008/09/17/ten-real-reasons-why-it-projects-fail/comment-page-1/#comment-250 Joe Lau Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:49:22 +0000 http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/?p=582#comment-250 Wow Simon I think you hav hit the nail on the head on this nice post. I can think of many times when these problems have occurred on projects and feel bad about it Wow Simon I think you hav hit the nail on the head on this nice post. I can think of many times when these problems have occurred on projects and feel bad about it

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