1. How To Fail In Project
Management
Shinta Bachir
shindikat tangguh banyak michir
2. Why Examine Project Failures?
• Invaluable source and information
• Provide real insight into the way
mismanagement
• Valuable data in relation to future projects
3. Project Stakeholders
Intervenors
Ignore the project Receptivity of New and
Unknown Risk
environment internal
(including environment Strong likelihood
Push a new
stakeholders)
of inadequate or
technology to cursory
market too quickly pretesting that
can result in
disaster.
Don’t bother Knee-Jerk
building in fallback sanctioning of
options When problems key personnel
occur, shoot the one Fix the
most visible problem, not
the blame.
What if Questions
4. Let new ideas Don’t bother
starve to death concluding
from inertia feasibility studies
Overmanage project
Never admit a
managers and their
project a failure
teams
5. Never, never Never bother to
conduct post- understand project
failure reviews trade-offs
Allow political
expediency and Make sure the
infighting to dictate project is run by a
crucial project weak leader
decisions
