Here are Seven Powerful Lessons You Can Learn When Your IT Project Fails: ‘Failure’ should teach you…
1 – To take responsibility. Don’t shift the blame to someone else if it’s “your bad”.
2 – To ask great questions. One Project Manager friend meditates on this question after each project – “How will I be different next time and in the future?”
3 – To strengthen your weakest links. When all is going well it is harder to assess whether all your team members are pulling their weight or your strategies and methodologies are really working for you.
4 – To align yourself with your business case. Really assess those end goals.
5 – To be realistic with your objectives. I worked with a team recently to assess why their latest project had failed – it was delivered late and unusually for them a fraction over-budget.
6 – To build a learning culture. One project leader has this framed on her desk – “The faster we fail, the faster we’ll succeed” – you’ve probably seen similar. es or even worse never learning at all.
7 – To retain a sense of humour. Don’t forget rubber, Vaseline, microwave ovens, cornflakes, saccharin and Viagra were all invented because someone failed whilst creating something else. –
By David Cotgreave for Project Accelerator UK, excerpted from article ” Never, ever fear failure. Seven powerful lessons you can learn when your IT project fails“, click here to read the entire article. [end]
