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A national project management survey released this month reports that most projects are not meeting goals, and team members are often not trained properly. While most projects are eventually completed, only one-third of them come in on time and on budget. Several factors are culpable.
In a national survey conducted last fall, almost 2,000 project managers and contributors reported that less than half (47 percent) of their organization’s projects always or often meet their goals. While most projects (82 percent) are eventually completed, only one-third (33 percent) of respondents said their projects are always or often completed on time and on budget.
Nearly 46 percent of respondents said their project teams aren’t often given clear, attainable goals. Nearly 69 percent of respondents said project teams aren’t usually given enough resources to accomplish their goals. And nearly 55 percent of respondents said the right people aren’t usually selected to lead or serve on project teams.
"I expected to see poor performance, but I didn't expect it to be at the levels we found, or across such a wide industry base," said Andrew Longman, partner and vice president, marketing for Kepner-Tregoe, one of two consulting firms that collaborated on the survey with Quality Progress magazine.
The survey was sent to the readership of Quality Progress in September 2005 by the magazine, …
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