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You can deliver your projects on time and under budget. But not if you continue to do what most people have been doing for years.
The truth about project management, especially in the computing and information technology sectors, is that too many projects fail. Even the successful ones are often failures disguised as “mini-successes”. They’ve been de-scoped, re-scoped, re-planned, re-phased and re-hashed so many times that everyone has lost sight of what the project originally aimed to deliver.
All this has got to change. For too long projects that should have never have seen the light of day have been allowed to lurch into life. They have then limped along until someone had the guts to put them out of their misery. By that time projects like these have drained the life and the money out of the organisation. Money and energy that could have been put to better use.
But it doesn’t have to be that way. It is possible to run projects that have a higher success rate that the average project. Then again, the average project only has about a 30% chance of success, so this isn’t promising much. So here’s a bigger promise. If you the risk management approach described in this book on your projects you can pretty much guarantee that will learn the skills that you need in order to:
- Deliver your project on time and under budget, or;
- Terminate your project before it becomes a drain on your organisation.
Difficult to believe? Buy the book and find out.