Executive Update

Project Failure: Is It Real or Is It Metrics?

Posted October 1, 2005 | Leadership |

At a recent project management conference, one of the speakers trotted out the same old project failure statistics we've been hearing since 1995. The speaker concluded that project failure is still rampant, and if would we just try a little harder and control a little more (by installing new systems and new methods), we could finally fix the problem.

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