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Experience of project closing in project initiation phase itself

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Bala S Duvvuri Project Manager| Shell Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Hello All,

Once a project manager is assigned during initiation phase he/she does a high level planning and analyze whether project can be executed as per the given constraints and can meet the objectives.

Has anybody come across a situation where they need to inform the key stakeholders that project cannot be executed due to several reasons in the initiation phase itself?

Thanks
Bala
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Sergio Luis Conte Helping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based Organizations Buenos Aires, Argentina
Sure. It is a matter of project governance. The business case and the project charter (to put an example) are live documents, mainly the first one. One the organization decides to start a project some environmental conditions (external and internal) are in place but those conditions can change and the project has no sence to proceed.
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PANKAJ KUMAR JOSHI General Manager| Transrail Lighting Limited Nainital, Uttrakhand, India
We faced this problem in one transmission line project when we came to know the problem of right of way in that region. The compensation demands were much higher than the government rates and customer was not providing any support on this matter. So we closed the project.
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Feb 09, 2016 9:02 PM
Bala S Duvvuri
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Thanks for sharing your experience Pankaj.
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Rami Kaibni
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Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten Associates New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
I personally never encountered closing of a large project after being initiated but for a fact, it might happen yes, everything is possible.
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Bala S Duvvuri Project Manager| Shell Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Feb 09, 2016 9:04 AM
Replying to PANKAJ KUMAR JOSHI
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We faced this problem in one transmission line project when we came to know the problem of right of way in that region. The compensation demands were much higher than the government rates and customer was not providing any support on this matter. So we closed the project.
Thanks for sharing your experience Pankaj.
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Markus Kopko AI Enabler for Project & Program Mgmt | Founder PMotion.ai / The PM AI Coach| PMotion.ai Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
My experience here is, that for really big projects there is a feasibility research/project performed before initiating the main project, just to exclude such situations.
But i havn't faced such a situation in all the small and middle big projects i have performed also, ... yet ...

Regards,

Markus
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Paolo Cornali Project Manager| HTA srl Brescia, Lombardia, Italy
Also in my experience there is a feasibility phase before initiating the project to exclude the situation you highlighted. Obviously if the feasibility has not been done well or risks are underestimated could happen.
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Tiago Mateus Senior PM | Author of the book "Project Your Life"| Volkswagen Financial Services Portugal
It can also happen due to:
- re-prioritization of projects to deal with lack of capacities.
- re-positioning of stakeholders engagement: power/interest might change

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