Project Management Resources
Factors likely to contribute to failure*:
- Project Governance
- Inadequate status/project reports
- Insufficient senior management oversight
- Insufficient planning
- Inadequate engineering change management
- Untimely project termination
- Project Communication
- Failure to keep top management informed
- Unfavourable public opinion
- Project Team
- Lack of project team participating in the making and execution of decisions
- Lack of team spirit on project
- Poor definition of authority and responsibility for project team
- Lack of commitment on the part of team members
- Project Manager
- Inadequate competencies of project manager regarding:
- Understanding of technology
- Administrative skills
- Interpersonal skills
- Communication skills
- Ability to make decisions; and
- Limited vision - does not see the big picture
- Poor relations with project stakeholders
- Poor customer relationship
- Lack of top-management support
- Project Resourcing, Scheduling & Funding
- Inadequate resources
- Inefficiencies in use of resources
- Unrealistic schedules
- Underestimated cost leading to underfunding
Factors contributing to project success*:
- Project Governance
- Adequate senior management oversight
- Early effective planning
- Adequate and continuing customer oversight
- Efficient system for monitoring, evaluating, and controlling the use of resources on the project
- Effective contingency planning
- Customer commitment to project
- Adequate management information system
- Project Team
- Appropriate organisational design
- Strong team member participation in the making and execution of decisions on the project
- Delegated authority and responsibility
- Project Manager
- Project manager's commitment to:
- Established technical performance objectives
- Budgets
- Schedules; and
- Use of state-of-the-art management concepts and processes
- Project Resourcing, Scheduling & Funding
- Realistic cost and schedule objectives
* Based on the Project Manager's Portable Handbook