Explain why projects can fail
Explain Why projects can fail
Project Failures
There are many reasons a project can fail below I will identify numerous different reasons that caused projects to fail.
Leadership & Governance
Projects without the correct leadership and governance are one of the easiest ways for projects to fail. All the parts are there (staff members) but there isn’t a head present anywhere to see in which direction the project is going or if change needs to be made.
On the other hand there could be very unexperienced leaders at the top mainly project managers with too little amount of hours under their belts. This can mean the project manager lacks the interpersonal or organisational skills that are needed to bring staff members together and make things happen.
This is evident in the NHS IT program where it was under inexperienced leaderships causing the project to be four years late while the specification is still being changed to this day.
Lack of skills
Another reason why projects fail is the lack of skills that the employees have may be insufficient to complete the project correctly. Within the teams assigned to complete the projects if any member of staff has insufficient skills it can cause the project to go downhill. Where an employee lacks the skills to perform the tasks that’s the area in the project that will start to fail if this is identified quickly the project will most likely succeed but if left unchecked it will only bring the project down.
This is also evident in the NHS IT program that I mentioned above while it failed to leadership and governance it also failed to the lack of skills of the people leading the project. The project was taken in the wrong direction because of inexperienced leaders.
Budgeting
A rather common and enormous issue that can come up is budgeting more often than not a project that is undertaken will be exceptionally underestimated. So when resources begin to run out the project is brought to a standstill and
Project Failures
There are many reasons a project can fail below I will identify numerous different reasons that caused projects to fail.
Leadership & Governance
Projects without the correct leadership and governance are one of the easiest ways for projects to fail. All the parts are there (staff members) but there isn’t a head present anywhere to see in which direction the project is going or if change needs to be made.
On the other hand there could be very unexperienced leaders at the top mainly project managers with too little amount of hours under their belts. This can mean the project manager lacks the interpersonal or organisational skills that are needed to bring staff members together and make things happen.
This is evident in the NHS IT program where it was under inexperienced leaderships causing the project to be four years late while the specification is still being changed to this day.
Lack of skills
Another reason why projects fail is the lack of skills that the employees have may be insufficient to complete the project correctly. Within the teams assigned to complete the projects if any member of staff has insufficient skills it can cause the project to go downhill. Where an employee lacks the skills to perform the tasks that’s the area in the project that will start to fail if this is identified quickly the project will most likely succeed but if left unchecked it will only bring the project down.
This is also evident in the NHS IT program that I mentioned above while it failed to leadership and governance it also failed to the lack of skills of the people leading the project. The project was taken in the wrong direction because of inexperienced leaders.
Budgeting
A rather common and enormous issue that can come up is budgeting more often than not a project that is undertaken will be exceptionally underestimated. So when resources begin to run out the project is brought to a standstill and