Why Do So Many Software Projects Fail Or End In Disappointment?

Why do so many software projects end in failure, disappointment, exceed budget, run behind schedule, or produce poor project execution and delivery? Whether it starts with poor enterprise software selection or ends with poor project planning and execution, there's many reasons. Many of these can be classified into five key categories or variables: Software Selection, Implementation Methodology, Project Resourcing, Issue Management and Training/Knowledge Transfer. Successful Software Projects provides consulting and advisory services into some of these key implementation variables. And how organizations and key stakeholders can effectively manage these, in order to enhance the ability to execute and deliver successful software projects that meet or exceed organizational goals and objectives. While also mitigating and minimizing project risk.

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Successful Software Projects provides Consulting & Advisory Services for educating and informing on 5 key variables involved in the execution and delivery of successful commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) packaged software projects. And how measuring, monitoring and managing these 5 key variables provides an opportunity to execute and deliver optimal enterprise class software solutions while also minimizing and mitigating project risk. Management Consulting/Advisory Services are formulated based on twenty five years of tier one enterprise application implementation experience across many large public and private sector implementation projects. As well as utilization of principles and tools of Lean Six Sigma Methodology (SIPOC, DMAIC, SMART, Ishikawa/Fishbone Root Cause Analysis) to answer the simple question "Why do Software Projects Fail?"

Audience:

Consulting and advisory services are intended for anyone, experienced or inexperienced, with a vested or participatory interest in a commercial-off-the-shelf(COTS)software implementation project. Everyone from key stakeholders at the executive/management project oversight level to frontline project execution and delivery resources responsible for executing and delivering successful business solutions - Executive Project Sponsors, Members of the Project Steering Committee, Project Managers, Project Team Members, Line of Business/Key Stakeholders and External Implementation Consultants/Partners. Informed oversight and frontline execution and delivery matters.

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Project Execution to Delivery

  • Software:  Inexpensive software is expensive.
  • Project Methodology :  Enterprise class software isn't plug and play. Implementation methodology - Define, Design, Build, Test, Deploy - matters. Some stages more than others.
  • Project Resourcing :  Projects without SME's (Subject Matter Experts) are designed and destined for failure.
  • Issue Management: Issue management is about people management.  Left unmanaged, important issues become urgent issues. 
  • Training :  Inadequately trained end-users means successfully executed and delivered projects quickly become short term failures.

Project Success and Failure


"Success is not Final, Failure is not Fatal: it is the Courage to Continue that Counts"

- Winston S. Churchill