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Be Objective, Part III
Collaboration with stakeholders, peer reviews, practitioner support networks and good old-fashioned research all play important roles in developing clear business objectives — the first step in any project’s success. Cultivated from workshops with IT executives and project leaders, our final installment in the series explains how.
This is the third and final installment in a series on developing clear business objectives. It is excerpted from “My Life Is Failure: 100 Things You Should Know to Be a Successful Project Leader” (Standish Group; 2006), a summation of 12 years of research — representing more than 50,000 completed projects — on why projects succeed or fail.
Together with user involvement and executive support, clear business objectives are one of the “Big Three” factors essential to project success, according to CHAOSUniversity — Standish Group’s body of research and lessons learned derived from hundreds of workshops with IT project professionals over the past decade. In fact, these three factors account for 50 percent of CHAOSUniversity’s success grade — that is, doing them well will get you halfway to a successful project.
Here are Points 7, 8, 9 and 10 of the ten guiding principles, cultivated from Standish workshops, for developing clear business objectives on your projects.
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