The Top 10 Reasons Projects Fail

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The Top 10 Reasons Projects Fail

Frank Winters

November 6, 2002






Projects--especially IT projects--fail. Some statistics say they fail more often than they succeed. Studies by the Standish Group, Gartner, Carnegie Mellon University, PMI and others all point out the same reality: projects very often fail. They are late. They are over-budget. They fail to deliver the product they were designed to produce. Some projects don't produce any product at all.

 

The dime store mantra of fast, cheap, good--pick two is heard too often. I spoke to a senior IT executive recently who told me that he doesn't hold his people accountable for anything but customer/user department satisfaction.



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