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With all the bad news from the stock market and the collapsing dot-com industry, it's easy to form the opinion that last year's IT shortage has turned into a glut of unemployed workers.

Even the most mediocre high-school Spanish-language student is unsurprised that the Chevy Nova was not a success in Latin American countries. And it is little wonder that the Ford Pinto and the soft drink Fresca produced more adolescent giggles than sales in the same area. Unfortunate names for otherwise worthwhile products.

It's hard to open a newspaper these days and not read about the purported economic slowdown. Indeed, anything compared to the ferocious growth of the 1990s would suffer. Pressures brought about from these conditions make negotiation very difficult for IT organizations under the gun.

Attending yet another project management course seems to be a common reward for being part of a failed project. However, having served as a member of project teams, a project manager, a project director, and a member of several steering committees -- and having attended a number of project management courses -- I have begun to realize that most failures have little to do with the project manager's abilities.


It's hard to open a newspaper these days and not read about the purported economic slowdown. Indeed, anything compared to the ferocious growth of the 1990s would suffer. Pressures brought about from these conditions make negotiation very difficult for IT organizations under the gun.