IT Projects:
Between Methodology and Success
This seminar aims to improve the success probability of IT projects by creating awareness and understanding of the complexities involved, of strategies to deal with those complexities and of the context and conditions necessary to apply PM methodologies successfully.
The Seminar
In this interactive one-day seminar we will provide insight and learning into:
- Why projects fail: a close look at the causes for ICT projects’ failure, where projects go wrong and what project management methodologies can and can’t do about it;
- Assumptions of Project Management: a list of prerequisites for projects that most methodologies prescribe or assumes to be present but place outside the scope of the methodology; how these relate to project failure;
- The three organisational cultures: a walk through the gaps in language, understanding, focus, and expectations of the three cultural domains, and their possible consequences for projects;
- Complexity in projects: its implications for project scoping, planning and approach and strategies to deal with it;
- Change processes: the project as a change agent, cultural implications and their effect on project effectiveness;
- Decision-making: different models for decision making within projects and their implications for project approach, information flow, involvement and motivation. Control and trust issues within the different models.
- Ownership: accountability versus SEP (Somebody Else’s Problem) in projects.
Seminar Outcomes
The seminar will provide awareness and understanding of:
- The many factors involved in ensuring the well-being of a project;
- How to recognise and avoid possible project pitfalls;
- The limitations of project management methodologies;
- Strategies complementary to project management methodologies;
- Strategies for improving the probability of project success.
