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Friday, July 15, 2011

Top 10 reasons project fail

2010 results from Muto Performance Corp's annual survey with 1,700 respondents from 26 countries and 22 industries.

1. Changes to Project Scope (Scope Creep) [Third year in a row!]



2. Resources are Inadequate (Excluding Funding)


3. Insufficient Time to Complete the Project


4. Critical Requirements are Unspecified or Missing [Up four from last year!]


5. Inadequate Project Testing


6. Critical Project Tasks are Delivered Late


7. Key Team Members Lack Adequate Authority


8. The Project Sponsor is Unavailable to Approve Strategic Decisions


9. Insufficient Project Funding [Down two from last year!]


10. Key Team Members Lack Critical Skills

Analysis of 2010 Survey Results


source: http://www.mutoperformancecorp.com/2010SurveyResults.htm

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

OMG - too true - so if I am currently experiencing the top 3, is there any hope?

HrmBoaz said...

It would be very interesting to see any correlation between frequency of those top 10 problems and the SDLC used (waterfall vs agile in particular)

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