I am grateful to my colleague, Jim Cumiskey, Manager of our Programme Management Office (PMO) in Trinity College Dublin, for this guest blog post on some lessons shared at the recent conference of the Association of Project Management PMO Special Interest Group last September in Watford, where the main speaker was Mark Price Perry (@markpriceperry). [...]
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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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