The Top Ten Reasons Projects Fail (Part 12)
Frank Winters has more than 30 years of consulting and Information Technology experience serving as a project/program manager, consultant and IT service industry executive.
Before we plunge into reason No. 9 and now that the series is about to (finally) come to an end, here's a brief status report: I'm happy to report that the series is of interest to the project management community. A while back, Hal Macomber commented favorably about one and two of the articles in his excellent and influential web log, Reforming Project Management.
At Microsoft, the top ten reasons cited in the first article are used in that company's Power Point sales pitch for MS Project, and PMI's monthly print magazine PM Network published the top ten list in its December 2003 issue. Individual articles in the series have been picked up for republication around the world. I'm very pleased by these expressions of interest but want to remind everyone that the list itself is mostly a prompt for further discussion (see the discussion thread for more information and some great ideas). If I were starting the series today, I'm sure the list would be different.
On to Reason 9…
Knowing what project management methods to use and how to use them is a function of both training and experience. Project management is not just general management applied to a project. It's also a separate discipline with its own tools, techniques and methods. Using them properly requires experience. In fact, some of the best project managers tend to be those who worked with experienced project …
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