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Nearly 70 percent of IT projects are dogged by cost-overruns or aren't completed on schedule due to poor planning, poor communication or poor resource allocation. Share your thoughts on how to assess the impact of the project management mistakes and offers ways IT groups can avoid them.
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End user engagement
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Project Team not clear on Vision
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RAKSHIT UBBOTT
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"Not cleared about d negatives "
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The biggest challenge faced by an organisation is always by the negatives that can be predictable , to avoid these from the beginning only , bring lot of mess & time delaying factors in the project
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V. Srinivas
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"ESTIMATION INEFFICIENCY"
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The biggest problem(s) in estimation specially in the Indian Context could be because of the following factors as listed below. 1. Are the objectives of the estimate clear and correct ? 2. Have the tasks been properly sized? Is there a proper WBS...
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IQBAL NADIR ZAIDI
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"End user engagement"
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End users are always required to be taken along but how.... The best way to avoid scope creep and also to keep the user happy is there should be joint inspections and scope discussions at 25%, 50%, 75% and at pre commissioing stage of any...
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I'm a big fan of lists. Heck - show me a project manager who isn't a fan of lists! I'm especially fond of lists that explain how not to do something. This way, I feel as though I'm learning from the expensively-gained experience of others. The list isn't meant to be exhaustive and isn't meant to be in order, but I hope this list proves useful to someone, somewhere: Mistake #1:Keep the team and the stakeholders apart #2: Communicate infrequently #3: Save all your testing until the last minute #4: Don't tell a client when they're wrong #5: Put the client on the critical path without telling them #6: Focus on contracts not collaboration #7: Mix your methodologies #8: Just get on with it and ne...
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Radhakrishna Marar
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I appreciate santhosh knowledge and thanks for giving such important tips.
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M NITIN SHENOY
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Some more mistakes: 1. Use of Thumbrule estimates 2. Not giving importance to Quantity Survey in Construction Projects 3. Risk Management and Contingency planning neglected 4. Project Plan considered to be a document alone and not a tool to be...
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Santhosh
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good to see this, here are some more list which I had prepared 8 years back. Some of them may be covered earlier and some may be obselte, 1.Ignore the overall schedule submitted to the customer (This is the one send to customer initially, which he...
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risk assesment...
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Planning and Execution
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Sourav Bagchi
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"Inconsistent Project Deliverable"
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As far as Indian IT Industry is concerned the flexiblity of accomodating Client Requirements without pushing back the delivery date is the biggest challenge
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Ned Robins
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"risk assesment..."
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Topic should read Risk Management of which Assessment is only the first step. However - it IS the most important step, and the one that most people fail on because the whole human race is confused about the basics - even as basic as "what is a...
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Sanyog Kumar Garg
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"risk assesment..."
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also..i would like to add that backward tracing is always helpful in this regard. I mean, change management is one of the key factor. proper communication with client about your changes and then refine your budget(and all) through back-tracing...
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Why do you think scope is important, what are the problems with scope ?
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Leena Pawar
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I agree with Chockalingam, the questions he has asked are very valuable and more appropriate to scope. In a project, scope plays a vital role, only when your are clear with the scope the project will be successful. Or else you will come across...
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RanjithKumar Panjabikesan
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Scope Plays a Vital Role in Projects. The critical success factor for projects is a well defined scope arrived at in a holistic perspective through Stakeholder Analysis (Needs and wants of Stakeholders) , Product analysis, Product Break down,...
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M NITIN SHENOY
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A well defined and understood SCOPE indicates that PROJECT is in HEALTHY State and its progress can be CONTROLLED effectively ... The efficiency and effectives of any process in project management is governed by the SCOPE of the Project. Eg.:...
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Technically speaking everything that is being done, has already been done or has to be done on a project must go to WBS. In other words anything that is not on WBS must either not be done or added to WBS. Please excuse me if it does not sound very polite but there is no scope for what you think and what I think here. What is right is right. WBS must contain no less than 100% and no more than 100% work on the project. It is a living document and is updated very frequently until the closing stage. Please read more at: http://blog.e-centric.net/2009/05/what-should-be-put-on-wbs.html
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Some management mistakes are so common that you can actually compile them into a list. If you’re a manager struggling to find out why your team is dysfunctional, take a look at the behaviors in this list and see if any look familiar. Not communicating with the team . I know, I know, you’ve seen the advice for communicating so often you want to smack someone. I want to smack myself for saying it so often. But you know what? Unless you’re on the front line heading into a military battle, you have to take time to communicate with your team members. You don’t have to pass on every shred of information you’ve gotten from upper management on a new initiative, but you have to give them enough info...
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Qazi Irfan Mustafa
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I think "trying to do everything themselves and failing to delegate effectively" deserves a place in this list particularly in IT and ITES.
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Rakesh Chakraborty
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Thanks for the post Suneeta...Handling the Team and the intricacies team handling gives one a whole knowledge of what needs to be done and what are the mistakes that needs to be taken care of..so being in team environment, and thinking from the...
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In most cases credit crunch is an excuse.
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Nobody makes excuses in such matters.
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Jagrut Dave
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"In most cases credit crunch is an excuse."
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Dear Japan, I totally agree with ur view and as you told that company has lots of options like no hikes or pay cuts are more feasible then layoffs. Also young management trainees as , I am at the threshold of their career experience such...
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Dayanand Deshpande
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"Nobody makes excuses in such matters."
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Most of the CEOs todays, who follow stock markets more religiously think massive layoffs are, more often than not, the first resort. So in a tough economic condition like this, it is not surprising that we see all corporate result announcements...
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Communication & Assumptions
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Project Management - Emphasizing Human Interaction
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Karthik
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"Communication & Assumptions"
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Fully agree with you. Communication is critical and making assumptions blatantly obvious to all team members will almost always save time and other resources.
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Karthik
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"Project Management - Emphasizing Human Interaction"
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Some Best Practices for avoiding pitfalls Stronger the pre-project assessment lesser will be items in the risk mitigation and contingency plans; similarly, good project initiation results in lesser number of issues in the Issue-Remediation...
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Venkatesh Babu Thevendira Subramanian
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"Communication & Assumptions"
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Yes, if our assumptions not matched with clients, which will be the major pitfall in Project Management. This wrong assumptions were assumed because of lack in communcation.
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Qazi Irfan Mustafa
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"Agree with the views expressed - It will fail"
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Dear Mr. Dikshit With all due respect sir, I was just making my point. I have a point of view that I have expressed in my blog and put for debate here. You do have your point of view too and our thinking does not match on this one topic. I do not...
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SB DIKSHIT
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"Do not agree - It will be successful"
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Mr qazi, may i know on which ground u have thumb it down,iis answer doesn't suits u?
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Qazi Irfan Mustafa
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"Agree with the views expressed - It will fail"
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Bangalore Metro might one day prove to be an engineering marvel but it is a project management disaster.
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Is time management is really managing the time or its jus the criteria to manage ourselves,i m in doubt that are these factors the same or does there exist a difference between them please add ur view regarding the matter with a reason. Thank you,
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