Jim Benson lists five reasons (he sees) projects fail: (1) No slack in the system, (2) Managing for the knowns, (3) Not limiting work-in-progress, (4) Political promises, and (5) Sloppy communication. He provides details on each of these and what successful project managers do.
As we move forward into the 21st century we need to understand that all knowledge work (which includes both software development and urban planning) requires a more adept type of project manager: a project manager that manages for the unknown because they understand the knowns very well – and those knowns include what were previously unknown: variability, waste, and politics.
(JC)
Why Project Managers Fail | Evolving Web | Jim Benson | 2 October 2009
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