In my discussions with executives, the most common complaint they have about internal project teams is that they hardly ever deliver the agreed end-results on time. While there are a number of reasons why this typically happens, one of the most common reasons is scope creep. Scope creep can be defined as the tendency for [...]
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Project success or failure?
When you start a project, how do you define its success?
Success criteria of the developers
How can we account for such radically different viewpoints? First of all, these developers were not novices. They were senior-level, with an average experience level of eight years. They defined success as “completing a technically challenging project and producing a high-quality [...]
How Do You Determine Project Success?
Is fulfilling the triple constraints sufficient to determine if a project is successful? I asked this question of PM students in my online course about management and leadership in a project environment:
“I worked a project that had rules in place by upper management when I arrived that said that if you used a tool to [...]