Most of our projects fail
Here's an e-mail from a frustrated PM
In our organization, they talk all the time about how we can deliver on projects. But once you cut through all the BS, you see that everybody is starting projects at the drop of a hat. We probably start projects each year that require 300% of our available person hours. So lots of projects are started and not finished, they just fade away. Others are catastrophic failures which produce nothing of any business value. The rest are finished close to the original due date (which was never possible) and then we spend 6 months fixing the crappy deliverables.
Who gets blamed? Not the sponsors who started more projects than they can remember. Not the executives who could not set priorities or enforce any kind of discipline. Its the project managers who get blamed. Happy New Year.
posted by Dick Billows, PMP, GCA @ 4:43 PM
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Happy new year to you too. I guess its more or less accurate to state the fact that almost all companies compromise and bend a little when it comes to winning contracts and projects. Its a cruel world when we PMs have to juggle with schedules, costs, among others to complete projects as promised. Though we try our best, rarely we meet important deadlines, let alone satisfy the client. I guess that is one of the reason why PMs are well paid. Comments!
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