There are quantitative and qualitative ways to describe the success or failure of a project. In general, a project is considered succesful when it meets its objectives while staying within an agreed up on budget and time line. This sounds simple enough, except that it is not ! First, who decides if a project isContinue reading “How do you measure success and failure of projects?”
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Do bigger projects really fail more often than smaller projects?
Common sense and Michael Krigsman tell me that bigger projects fail more than smaller projects. However, this does not match what I have experienced in the past. From what I have seen, project size does not have a significant impact on its odds to fail. First – how do we define size ? Size can generallyContinue reading “Do bigger projects really fail more often than smaller projects?”
Too much of analysis + Too little of synthesis = Sub-optimal decisions
I remember a high school lesson on analysis and synthesis – with the teacher emphasising why they should always go hand-in-hand in a complimentary manner. It apparently did not register very deeply in my mind – and for a number of years, I was a bigger fan of analysis than one of synthesis. Higher educationContinue reading “Too much of analysis + Too little of synthesis = Sub-optimal decisions”
And Vijay Says... 