1. Analyze the primary causes of information management / information technology project failures and recommend at least three (3) best practices that could be adopted by any organization to avoid such failure in the future.
According to our text (Glandon, Smaltz & Slovensky 2008) “the single greatest cause of project failure is poor executing”. Other primary causes of information management / information technology project failure include;
“Poor planning”
“Unclean goals and objectives”
“Objective changes during project”
“Unrealistic times or resource estimate”
“Lack of executive support and user involvement”
“Failure to communicate and act as a team”
“Inappropriate skill” (Neimat & Taimor).
Three best practices that I recommend that could be adopted by any organization to avoid such failures in the future include;
1) Organizations should “Plan the work by utilizing a “Project Definition Document”; this encompasses a definition of all details of the project; it also is the staple for the project to be performed (Mochal, 2009) 2) Organizations should “Create a Planning Horizon”; which encompasses developing the project plan after instituting the project definition, which also constitutes step by step procedures for developing the project and overseeing the project (Mochal, 2009). 3) Organizations should “Define Project Management Procedures Up Front”, which encompasses and “Outline of resources that organizations implement to oversee the project; which also encompass procedures on how the organization team will “manage issues, scope change, risk, quality, communication etc.” (Mochal, 2009).
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2. Determine the most effective way that project metrics and portfolio
