What are the main barriers for the project success?

Hi Pench,

There may be some barriers as below.

1). Project charter and documents are incomplete
2). There is no enough meeting with stakeholders and team members
3). Communications gap
4). Do not have previous or competed projects documents
5). Less resources
6). More paper work causes to time consuming etc.

There may be many more but some points i have described above.

I hope this will be helpful.

Another barrier is not having a platform to hear what your project team (staff, vendors and clients) have to say about how well the project is defined, and how well it is going. Good team dynamics are crucial, and they need to feel that their voices are being heard and actions are taking place, otherwise disgruntlement and ineffectiveness can doom any project. Which is one reason why 50-75% never meet their KPIs.

I'll add 'poorly defined requirements' and 'failure to identify all stakeholders' to the list. Either one of these will probably doom a project, and they usually aren't detectable until it's far too late.

Absence of clearly defined requirements is no doubt on the top but a close second is the failure to manage stakeholder expectation as you work with those requirements.

If you think about it, its almost an infinite loop. From the inception till the very end, the stakeholders should be given (and consistently reminded of) a very clear idea of what the final result would look like. As PMBOK and most other guidelines would attest, ending a project without delivering anything tangible can also be a success as long as a collective and conclusive agreement is reached with the stakeholders.

ist of barriers can be endless and it depends on the situation / project but I find communication and lack of transparency are very common.

I think one of the barrier is lack of clarity. Sometimes employees don’t know or don’t understand the project goals, objectives, roles and responsibilities, etc.

I'd blindly say Project scope