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Top 10 Project Strategy Mistakes
Project managers must learn from past mistakes, or they're doomed to repeat them. Here are 10 of the most common missteps that jeopardize IT projects, with recommendations on how you and your organization can avoid or overcome them.
Successful project managers incorporate the lessons of past projects — both successful and unsuccessful — to ensure their IT deployments are as efficient and effective as possible. Failure to look to the past leads organizations to make the same errors repeatedly in technology strategy development and implementation. History repeats itself.
Mistakes and failures in communications, planning, documentation and organization can doom an IT deployment. By heeding lessons learned, organizations can avoid landmines and their disastrous consequences.
Wise project managers have learned to avoid the following 10 most common mistakes.
1: Identifying a new technology and then trying to develop ways to apply it
Projects succeed or fail based on their alignment with business requirements. Organizations often try to back into technology plans, attempting to match them with elusive potential business gains based on vendor promises. While technology presents opportunities for altering business capabilities, connections must be carefully analyzed and pilot business metrics clearly defined.
2: Failing to ensure projects are business-driven
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