Project Management: How to Overcome Infamous Failures, Classic Mistakes, and Best Practice’s in IT Projects Jyothi Priya, Alekapatti Nandagopal, MS ITM, UTD.
Abstract
The article of Ryan Nelson reveals the reasons behind the IT projects failures. Improper project management, poor requirements gathering, over-estimated programming development, under Estimation, inefficient risk management, poor Quality Assurance, and misuse of advanced technology misuse are the major issues for those failures. From the McConnell findings major IT failures are grouped as Process failures (45%), People failures (43%), Product failures (8%) and Technology failures (4%). Few techniques where introduced for best practices in Project management. Later discussed …show more content…
Avoiding Poor Estimating and/or Scheduling
To achieve proper estimation and scheduling can be done using time box evaluation where the time required for the project can be monitored easily, work breakdown structure for estimating the requirement changes, retrospectives used for prediction, project management office for data maintenance.
Avoiding Ineffective Stakeholder Management
By using stakeholder worksheet and assessment graph helps in visual realization of stakeholder work, proper communication channel from the top level to lower levels teams of the project are used to avoid ineffective Stakeholder Management
Avoiding Insufficient Risk Management
Risk management process has Risk identification, analysis, prioritization, risk management, planning, resolution and monitoring phases involved. Prioritized risk assessment table is used to find which task incompletion leads to the project failure.
Avoiding Insufficient …show more content…
Planning, Time, Budget, Technology, and Quality are the major factors for project success.
Conclusion
Organizations are totally dependent on their IT systems; indeed. Yet all the evidence points to the fact that proper Planning and Defining Scope, Activity Sequencing, Efficient Resource Planning, Proper Time Estimation and appropriate Budget Estimation, Documentation of tasks, Risk Analysis, Quality Control, Managing Risks and Issues on timely basis, Monitoring and Reporting Progress on time leads to deliver projects are kept on time.
References
1. R. Ryan Nelson, 2007. IT Project Management: Infamous Failures, Classic Mistakes, and Best Practices: MIS Quarterly Executive Vol. 6 No. 2 / June 2007.
2. Essential Knowledge and Management Issues in Law Firms by Martin Apistola, Peter Gottschalk
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Abstract
The article of Ryan Nelson reveals the reasons behind the IT projects failures. Improper project management, poor requirements gathering, over-estimated programming development, under Estimation, inefficient risk management, poor Quality Assurance, and misuse of advanced technology misuse are the major issues for those failures. From the McConnell findings major IT failures are grouped as Process failures (45%), People failures (43%), Product failures (8%) and Technology failures (4%). Few techniques where introduced for best practices in Project management. Later discussed …show more content…
Avoiding Poor Estimating and/or Scheduling
To achieve proper estimation and scheduling can be done using time box evaluation where the time required for the project can be monitored easily, work breakdown structure for estimating the requirement changes, retrospectives used for prediction, project management office for data maintenance.
Avoiding Ineffective Stakeholder Management
By using stakeholder worksheet and assessment graph helps in visual realization of stakeholder work, proper communication channel from the top level to lower levels teams of the project are used to avoid ineffective Stakeholder Management
Avoiding Insufficient Risk Management
Risk management process has Risk identification, analysis, prioritization, risk management, planning, resolution and monitoring phases involved. Prioritized risk assessment table is used to find which task incompletion leads to the project failure.
Avoiding Insufficient …show more content…
Planning, Time, Budget, Technology, and Quality are the major factors for project success.
Conclusion
Organizations are totally dependent on their IT systems; indeed. Yet all the evidence points to the fact that proper Planning and Defining Scope, Activity Sequencing, Efficient Resource Planning, Proper Time Estimation and appropriate Budget Estimation, Documentation of tasks, Risk Analysis, Quality Control, Managing Risks and Issues on timely basis, Monitoring and Reporting Progress on time leads to deliver projects are kept on time.
References
1. R. Ryan Nelson, 2007. IT Project Management: Infamous Failures, Classic Mistakes, and Best Practices: MIS Quarterly Executive Vol. 6 No. 2 / June 2007.
2. Essential Knowledge and Management Issues in Law Firms by Martin Apistola, Peter Gottschalk
3.