Below is a list of some reasons why projects fail, taken from David Cleland’s chapter ‘Strategic Management’ in “The Field Guide to Project Management” (highlights mine)
Check the list to make sure you are not experiencing any of these in your current project. If you are, then it’s time to take action to amend the situation!
- Inadequate senior management oversight
- Ineffective planning
- Inappropriate organizational design
- Lack of well-defined and delegated authority and responsibility
- Inefficient system for monitoring, evaluating, and controlling the use
of resources on the project - Ineffective contingency planning
- Limited team member participation in the making and execution of decisions on the project
- Unrealistic cost and schedule objectives
- Lack of customer commitment to project
- Limited customer oversight
- Inadequate management information system
