This document outlines reasons for agricultural project failure and success. It defines project failure as not meeting goals, requirements, or stakeholder needs, while success is delivering on time, on budget, and meeting specifications. Failure can result from poor strategy, technology, or execution, like inadequate planning or oversight. Blame should be assigned for failure related to plans and execution. To succeed, projects need commitment from stakeholders, realistic estimates, and good management through planning, coordination, decision making, and change control. Applying the right strategy, technology, and management can help ensure agricultural projects achieve their objectives.

1. Department of
Agribusiness and
Information System
PRESENTER
Faculty of Agriculture
UPM
By: MAMMA SAWANEH
GS31415
.

2. PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Introduction
Why do some agricultural projects fail and some do not?
Should we blame the failure and how to reward for the
success?
What actions or decisions should be taken?
Conclusion

3. INTRODUCTION
A project is a non-repetitive
enterprise, characterized by a clear and
logical sequence of events, with a
beginning, middle, and end, focused on
the accomplishment of a clear and defined
objective on deadline, with
costs, resources, and quality parameters
specified

4. HOW DO WE DEFINE PROJECT
FAILURE AND SUCCESS
FAILURE SUCCESS
Not meeting project
goals, delivering requirements / Delivery on time and within budget
scope
Not matching stakeholder
requirements reliable and maintainable
Poor implementation and
management Satisfies the users
Meets project goals, completed to
Not hitting quality standards specification / quality requirements

5. PROJECT FAILURE VS SUCCESS
Failure Success
It has not deliver to cost,
delivered what to quality, and
was required on time
deliver the
Not in line with benefits
expectations. presented in the
business case

6. AGRICULTURAL PROJECT
An agricultural project is a unique set
of agricultural coordinated activities
with definite beginning and endpoint
example
Integrated Rice Fish farming project
(IRFFP)

7. CHARACTERISTICS OF AN
AGRICULTURAL PROJECT
Non repetitive enterprise
• Clear and logical sequence of events
• Follows a certain life cycle
Clear and defined objective
• Satisfies the users
Projects use resources
• Predefined parameters

8. WHY AGRICULTURAL PROJECTS
FAIL
Poor strategy
•Ineffective planning
•Inappropriate organizational design
Poor technology
•Inappropriate organizational design
•Lack of customer commitment to project
Poor execution
•Inadequate senior management oversight
•Lack of well-defined and delegated authority and responsibility
•Inefficient system for monitoring, evaluating, and controlling the use of
resources

9. SHOULD WE BLAME FOR THE
FAILURE?
 When projects get behind schedule
always find a solution rather than assign
blame
 Blame should be assigned especially for
poor strategic and execution of project
plans.

10. ACTIONS/DECISIONS
 Insiston the right to select key project
team members.
 Develop commitment and a sense of
mission from the outset.
 Coordinate and maintain a good
relationship with the farmers, government,
and other stakeholders.
 Have key team members assist in
decision-making and problem-solving.

11. ACTIONS/DECISIONS
 Develop realistic cost, schedule, and
performance estimates and goals.
 Employ a workable set of project planning
and control tools.
 Avoid overreliance on one type of control
tool.
 Give priority to achieving the mission or
function of the end-item.
 Keep changes under control.

12. CONCLUSION
In conclusion, applying good strategy, the
right technology, and good project
management can ensure that the
organization performs agricultural projects
that will provide the capacity and
capabilities that stakeholders need

13. REWARD FOR SUCCESS

14. T HANK Y OU

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