When reading the articles in "Killing IT Projects" in the December 2003 Cutter IT Journal, I kept wondering how all the projects that experience massive escalations ever get approved in the first place. Look at Mark Keil's 10-question, one-minute test for factors that promote software project escalation [11]. Question 1 asks if the project charter is missing.
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Robert N. Charette is a Cutter Fellow and a member of Arthur D. Little’s AMP open consulting network. He is also President of ITABHI Corporation and Managing Director of the Decision Empowerment Institute. With over 40 years’ experience in a wide variety of technology and management positions, Dr. Charette is recognized as an international authority and pioneer regarding IT and systems risk management. Along with being a Contributing Editor to… Read More
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