There are two key reasons that organisations don’t learn from project failure: not acknowledging failure and not learning the lessons of failure. In the first of a short series of articles on project failure, John Lawlor explores the reasons why organisations don’t learn from project failure.
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Deploying Microsoft Project and Project Server in Trinity College
I am speaking at a Microsoft and PM Centrix event tomorrow on Trinity College’s experience of implementing Microsoft Project and Project Server in the Information Systems Department. The title of the event is “Microsoft Project: An Intuitive and Easier Way to Complete Projects” and takes place in the Westbury Hotel, Grafton Street, Dublin. Registration begins [...]
Planning For Success: The Basics Of Good Project Management
Eight practical steps to project success A failed project can lead to loss of revenue and opportunity; failure to achieve business goals; diversion of resources from other activities; sapping of staff morale and, perhaps, even business failure. So, as projects become more complex and critical to business performance, how do you improve your chances of [...]
Will We Ever Learn?
Anyone involved in IT project management will probably have had the misfortune to have been involved in or to have known a project that failed. Careers can be destroyed; recriminations fly; blame is apportioned by everyone to everyone else; relationships break down; trust is damaged, and people who were friends become strangers. That’s the human side, which is often ignored in the dynamics of projects. If organisations know the causes of project failure – people, technology, project management – then why don’t they learn the lessons so that they don’t fail again in future?
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