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Failing a Software Development Project Fast

Project Management Planet — Thu, 02 May 2013 10:15:51 +0000

Software development is an industry that has been around for a little bit more than 50 years. There are a lot of really smart people working in this industry. How is it possible that these smart people are so good at failing software development projects? How can we as an...

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Project Failure Prevention: 10 Principles for Project Control

Project Management Planet — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 21:03:22 +0000

In this article, Tom Gilb provides ten principles to control projects and avoid failure.

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Defining Project Failure

Project Management Planet — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 21:58:04 +0000

Most people try to avoid failure at any cost. However, the real question is how do we define project failure? In most cases, you will hear people talk about the project going over budget, the project being late, or the project being buggy. These three reasons are probably the most...

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When Do You Kill A Project?

Project Management Planet — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 22:49:01 +0000

as a project manager or as business stakeholder how does one determine whether to bring the project back to life or just kill it? Answering this question is not that hard. You will find it in this post “When Do You Kill A Project?“

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