Knowing when your project is in trouble

Project Management, Project Recovery on September 28th, 2009 2 Comments

As I discuss project recovery in more detail I thought it would be nice to share how you know when a project is in trouble. This info comes right out of the materials I gave SoWY Department of Health. What was interesting is that they could identify with many of these symptoms of a project in trouble:

  • Late Delivery (most common)
  • Involuntary Overtime
  • Non-specific Tasks on Schedule
  • Large Tasks on Schedule (over 24 person-hours)
  • No Schedule
  • Complaints About “Scope Creep”
  • High Turnover Rate, Especially Managers
  • Secrecy
  • Adding Resources
  • No Measurements Against Estimates (or No Estimates)
  • No Requirements or Design Documentation
  • No Reviews or Review Results Documented
  • PAIN in general

    • Everybody knows when a project is going south – most won’t admit to it, except by jumping ship or by pollinating poison through negative talk and gossip.

    Once you know that the project is in trouble you need to act – next post ;-)

    2 Responses to “Knowing when your project is in trouble”

    1. Successful Projects » Blog Archive » Causes of troubled projects says:
      October 12, 2009 at 8:16 am

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