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ASSURED FAILUREFive Mistakes That Guarantee Project Collapse

WE’VE ALL BEEN HERE…

ASSURED FAILURE

WHAT IT CAN FEEL LIKE

ASSURED FAILURE

AGENDA

AGENDA

Lack of Stakeholde

r Alignment

Hero TimeEstimatesScope

Creep

Failure to Communica

teUndefined

Success

THE IRONTRIANGLE

ASSURED FAILURE

SCOPE CREEP

SCOPE CREEP

National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation

The Expansion or Changing of Project Goals While the Project is in Progress

SCOPE CREEP

THE SILENT KILLER

SCOPE CREEP

r

Clear Alignment of Project Goals “BE

ON THE SAME PAGE”

Strong Sponsor Support

“PROVIDE AIR COVER”

Exhaustive Requirements

Collection “MINIMIZE THE

MISSES”

Extensively Documented

Change Log “BE ABLE TO TELL THE STORY”

PROPERLY

MANAGED SCOPE

THE SILENT KILLER

LACK OF STAKEHOLDER ALIGNMENT

LACK OF STAKEHOLDER ALIGNMENT

Qantas, Australian Airline, 2005

Introduced the ‘Jetsmart’ Parts Management System

Cost $40 Million AUD

LACK OF STAKEHOLDER ALIGNMENT

IT TAKES A VILLAGE

LACK OF STAKEHOLDER ALIGNMENT

Lack of Business Goal

Knowledge

IT TAKES A VILLAGE

Unidentified Stakeholders

and Expectations

Lack of Clear Goals

Lack of Stakeholder Alignment

14HERO TIME ESTIMATES

YOU’RE NOT ONE OF THE AVENGERS

Police Chief Simon Overland Victoria Police Department,

Australia, 2005 Replace an 18 Year Old

Criminal Database System Cost = $100 Million AUD

HERO TIME ESTIMATES

HERO TIME ESTIMATES

HERO TIME ESTIMATES

YOU’RE NOT ONE OF THE AVENGERS

Project Cancellation

Not Meeting Deadlines

Poor Quality Deliverables

Failure to Properly Schedule

Project Plan

Inflexibility

Poor Resource

Management

JUNK IN JUNK OUT

FAILURE TO COMMUNICATE

FAILURE TO COMMUNICATE

FAILURE TO COMMUNICATE

Summer Olympics & G4S London, 2012 G4S Contracted with the

Olympic Games to Provide 10,000 Trained Security Personnel

Cost = $60 million

CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?

FAILURE TO COMMUNICATE

CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?

• Transparency • Confidence

• Managed Expectations

• Engaged Stakeholders

On the Same Page Trust Building

Tell The StoryPropels Engagement

20

UNDEFINED SUCCESS

HOW TO KNOW YOU GOT TO WHERE YOU WERE GOING

British Home Office, 2012 Equip 41,000 British Police

Officers with Blackberry Devices

Projected Savings = 125 Million GBP

UNDEFINED SUCCESS

UNDEFINED SUCCESS

UNDEFINED SUCCESS

HOW TO KNOW YOU GOT TO WHERE

YOU WERE GOING

METRICS

• What is important?

BASELINE

• Where are we today?

WRAPPING IT UP

QUESTIONS

?THOUGHTS

!COMMENTS

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ASSURED FAILURES

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