Cause Of Project Failure

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7.10.1 Causes of Projects Failure (IT):
A recent survey conducted by KPMG consultancy and services company 6 main factors of the (IS) projects failures has specified:
• Poorly planning of project;
• Weak justification plan;
• Non-involvement and support of senior management;
• Non-involvement of user;
• Novelty of technology for organization, and
• The lack of familiarity with project(Wysocki, 2002).
Each of the factors may jeopardize the project success in different ways but one or several of these factors could eventually increase the project risk so until useless it; in the case of occurring such a situation early termination of the project is only solution which remain for organization. By a closer investigation can divided the main factors …show more content…

Although the role of ownership in the project is mostly weak and worse sometimes does not exist. Executive Senior Managers have a good position in terms of tracking the progress of the project and its cost in the organization but, often fail to do it or do it too late. Undeveloped or non-stabilized technology: As previously mentioned the IS projects can be divided into 4 groups in terms of technology (Balkundi & Kilduff, 2006).
• Developed technologies;
• Almost developed technologies;
• Advanced technologies, and
• Very advanced technologies(Balkundi & Kilduff, 2006).
Advanced and very advanced technologies are placed in the edge of development advanced and usually are evolved; although the technology has progressed by amazing speed but, the speed of changes has a negative impact on IT projects. The wish of gaining leadership is the weak point of many organizations which think the last thing is the best thing. In 1980 the mach-hyped client server technology effectively caused to failure of many IS projects in big organizations. At that time, often without considering the risks of using the undeveloped technology the very powerful and reliable big computers was superseded. Within a few weeks and in …show more content…

The most important factor in the success of the IS project is ability and talent of project manager because the today important issues is management issues and not technical issues. Inexperienced project managers are lacking of communication power, leadership and strong management. Unfortunately, in many organizations the criteria of the project manager selection are solely based on technical competence and surely such organizations appoint the programmer or highly skilled analyst without regard to the terms of project management(Porter,

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