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What is the percentage of project failure due to communication problem?

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Suresh Kumar Senior Executive - IT Delivery (Testing and Quality Assurance)| Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad (MAHB) Seremban, Negeri Sembilan Darul Khusus, Malaysia
Would like to add it to my Ph.D thesis.
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Antonio Louro Director Africa| Insight International Luanda, Luanda, Angola
Suresh I cannot quote an exact percentage but one thing I am sure if you do not communicate well, effectively and efficiently then I am sure the project will fail! I have seen that happing to many times. Best
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Tamer Zeyad Sadiq Assistant Cost Manager| Turner & Townsend Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia
It can't be evaluated it depends on complexity and size's project
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Kiron Bondale Retired | Mentor| Retired Welland, Ontario, Canada
Suresh -

As you are doing a thesis this sounds like a great opportunity to conduct a survey to try to get a statistically relevant sample of sponsors or PMs to weigh in on this.

The challenge will be determining whether communication was the root cause of a project's failure or just a contributing factor.

Kiron
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May 01, 2019 1:05 PM
Alyne Padilla Lynch
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Completely agree with Kiron and was going to recommend the same. A newly conducted survey will also provide you with fresh context for the thesis. There are several articles that reference this topic, but many are outdated. You're on a great site for this! Good luck with the thesis.
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Abolfazl Yousefi Darestani Manager, Quality and Continuous Improvement| Hörmann-TNR Industrial Doors Newmarket, Ontario, Canada
I agree with Kiron. However, it has to do with the nature and size of the project.
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Yenny Peguero Jimenez IT Project Manager / IT Auditor| . Va, United States
Failure due to communication problem is usually in top 3 or 4 according to surveys.
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Alyne Padilla Lynch Sr Business Process Analyst| Communications and Finance Industry Sacramento, Ca, United States
May 01, 2019 7:50 AM
Replying to Kiron Bondale
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Suresh -

As you are doing a thesis this sounds like a great opportunity to conduct a survey to try to get a statistically relevant sample of sponsors or PMs to weigh in on this.

The challenge will be determining whether communication was the root cause of a project's failure or just a contributing factor.

Kiron
Completely agree with Kiron and was going to recommend the same. A newly conducted survey will also provide you with fresh context for the thesis. There are several articles that reference this topic, but many are outdated. You're on a great site for this! Good luck with the thesis.
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Deepesh Rammoorthy ICT Project Manager ( PMP®AgilePM®Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM®))| Australian Red Cross Blood Service Tarneit, Vic, Australia
100% of the projects are bound to fail due to lack of communication. If people don't talk they will not know what to produce.

I am sorry I am the bringer of bad news here but I don't think there's a need to do any research or write a thesis on a common sense fact.

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