The Big Problem and Dirty Little Secret with IT Projects is What We Never Say
I came across a WSJ article a couple of weeks ago that’s haunted me since I read it. It was a piece about the shift in company attitudes from “grow at all costs” to “we’ve got to get operationally efficient.” The authors report that the primary driver behind this shift—which came as no surprise—is the […]
Our Brain Is the Biggest IT Project Killer
In December, 2022 the Project Management Institute held their Global Summit Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. This is one of the roughly 25 out of 250+ presentations that were featured live. It’s widely known that IT projects fail at an alarming rate. What’s not widely known is that the cause of 75% of those failures is our inability to communicate. What’s even less well known is that the cause of that inability is the human brain. This presentation explains how and why our brain sabotages our communications, and offers a simple way to fix that problem.
One Enterprise IT Project Checklist Every Virtual Team Needs Now!
Covid-19 is rattling nerves, up-ending lives and sparking a huge expansion of the virtual workplace. For those contemplating or in the midst of sponsoring enterprise IT projects this is going to significantly expand the communication and execution challenges standing in the way of your success.
The Elephant in the IT Conference Room
We’re not very good at it. In fact, playing Russian Roulette with five bullets in the gun (five out of six) actually has better odds of success than running a large IT project.
Almost everyone in the industry has, at least some inkling, that this problem exists. But as with death, and such other unpleasantries, we don’t like to talk about it too much. It makes us uncomfortable.
The Costs and Primary Cause of Enterprise IT Project Failures
Having initiated a discussion during my last post about the frequency of enterprise IT project failures, it’s time to address two other parameters of this issue. I’ll start by looking at the annual cost of these failures and conclude today with an introduction to their primary point of origin.
