12 | 2003

Get the Business Case Right
Every project should have a compelling business need. With appropriate process, design, and implementation, project success is ensured.

Get the Culture Right
The best-laid plans may fail. Every organization must develop a culture that can deal with failure as a possible project outcome. To say “failure is not an option” is just bad management.

"How do the turkey projects get wings in the first place; and, once flying, what prevents us from grounding them?"

-- Lynne Nix, Guest Editor

Opening Statement
Lynne Nix

Software Project Escalation and De-escalation: What Do We Know?
Mark Keil

Why Flawed Software Projects Are Not Cancelled in Time
Capers Jones

Project Management, The Movie
Laurent Bossavit

Cancelling a Project in Four Not-So-Easy Steps
Eileen Strider

A Losing Gamble with Public Funds: Why Large Public-Sector IT Projects Are More Likely to Fail and Are Harder to Cancel
Payson Hall





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To help those of us who have resolved to make better decisions next year, Guest Editor and Cutter Consortium Senior Consultant Lynne Nix and a slate of experienced IT leaders tells you how to identify -- and put a stop to -- projects that are signaling eventual and expensive failure. Keep doomed IT projects from getting started in your organization -- don't miss this issue!