Why do technology projects fail?

Technology is at the heart of most businesses, even if the organization’s business is not technology. Either because online channels are used to sell, databases exist to better understand different types of clients, workflows are set up for process automation, order tracking systems deployed to keep happy customers: companies today make use of technology on a daily basis. However, technology implementation projects have a much higher failure statistics than most projects. Very oftten, projects are canceled after having many delays, cost overruns, and without completing the expected developments. After years of managing technology projects in organizations of different sizes and sectors, I have identified 3 frequent scenarios that lead technology projects to failure: Hire a developer and …

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Project Management is for everyone

Have you ever defined an objective and decided on a date by which you wanted it to be achieved? Maybe you even decided on a budget and designed a plan to succeed. Well, if you have ever done something like that, you have defined a project. Planning vacations, launching new websites, moving into or out of new houses or offices, starting historical databases by measuring how you spend your time, researching your market to find out more about your clients, arranging all the details for the 80th birthday party of your grandmother — all of these are projects.What makes a …

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