Project Management that Works: Real-World Advice on Communicating, Problem Solving, and Everything Else You Need to Know to Get the Job Done

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ow that we’ve addressed how to understand yourself and the peo-

ple you’re working with, as well as how to maintain honesty in the

process, let’s turn to one of the largest problems in the project

management industry. Failure. The statistics are staggering: the propensity

for project failure is enormous. The general accepted failure rates range

from as low as 59 percent to an unbelievable 94 percent of projects failing

to meet their goals. When studying project failure, survey questions are

used to try to determine if the project met the desired scope, time frame,

or all of the requirements that the project set out to complete. These points

all take ...