Project management methods met with wide acceptance as a means to accelerate product development, efficient use of resources, and to encourage cross-functional communication. Not only manufacturers, but also legal offices, hospitals, and local authorities have the project management as an integral part of its activities. However, failure and disaster stories abound in direct project management. The study indicates that failure dozen surefire methods dooming the project: to ignore its environment, to push new technologies into the market too quickly, do not bother to build a backup options when there are problems, the most notable person to shoot and let new ideas starve to inertia, do not bother holding feasibility studies, never, never admit the project is a failure, the micro-level project managers and their teams, never, never carried out after the audit, never try to understand the design trade-offs, let politics dictate important decisions of the project and ensure The project is run by a weak leader. However, past failures should not prevent us from future efforts. Indeed, it is through these failures, that we get a good sense to push for a successful enterprise. "Hide
by Jeffrey K. Pinto, Om P. Kharbanda Source: Business Horizons 9 pages. Publication Date: July 15, 1996. Prod. #: BH010-PDF-ENG
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