October 9, 2009
One of the fundamental mysteries in the practice of IT management is “why cant we get better at delivering projects?” Much has been written about the subject, with the balance focusing on the negative – project failure, IT Fail, etc. A recent article in MIT Sloan Management Review got me thinking about another angle on this question – maybe we are ignoring some fundamental, but less obvious signs that our projects are not positioned for ...
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October 2, 2009
Every little bit helps in sniffing out projects that are destined for trouble. You would think that with 10+ years of project success data from Standish and others, we would have collectively improved things significantly. This is not the case. So, I read with interest Paul Shoemaker and George Day’s article in the Spring 2009 MIT Sloan Management Review called How to Make Sense of Weak Signals with an eye toward applying these ideas to ...
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