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Final Assured Failure - OHECC (Compressed V2 and Notes Removed for Sharing)
This document discusses the top 5 mistakes that can guarantee project failure: lack of stakeholder alignment, unrealistic hero time estimates, scope creep, failure to communicate, and undefined success. Each mistake is explained through examples and key steps are provided to avoid each mistake, such as clearly aligning project goals, exhaustively collecting requirements, managing expectations, and setting metrics and targets. The overall message is that properly managing scope, communication, expectations, and defining success are critical to avoiding assured project failure.
Final Assured Failure - OHECC (Compressed V2 and Notes Removed for Sharing)
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- 2. AFIDENCEIT A Company Builton Trust EXECUTIVE ADVISORY PROJECT MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT SECURITY & COMPLIANCE AWARD WINNING LAUNCHED IN 2010 MASON, OH (HQ) MIAMISBURG, OH75+ CLIENTS IN 30 STATES & 15 COUNTRIES
- 3. ASSURED FAILURE Five MistakesThat Guarantee Project Collapse
- 4. WE’VE ALL BEENHERE… ASSURED FAILURE
- 5. WHAT IT CANFEEL LIKE ASSURED FAILURE
- 6. AGENDA AGENDA Lack of Stakeholder Alignment Hero Time Estimates Scope Creep Failureto Communicate Undefined Success
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- 9. SCOPE CREEP NationalLampoon’s Christmas Vacation The Expansion or Changing of Project Goals While the Project is in Progress SCOPE CREEP THE SILENT KILLER
- 10. SCOPE CREEP r Clear Alignment ofProject Goals “BE ON THE SAME PAGE” Strong Sponsor Support “PROVIDE AIR COVER” Exhaustive Requirements Collection “MINIMIZE THE MISSES” Extensively Documented Change Log “BE ABLE TO TELL THE STORY” PROPERLY MANAGED SCOPE THE SILENT KILLER
- 11. LACK OF STAKEHOLDERALIGNMENT
- 12. LACK OF STAKEHOLDERALIGNMENT Qantas, Australian Airline, 2005 Introduced the ‘Jetsmart’ Parts Management System Cost $40 Million AUD LACK OF STAKEHOLDER ALIGNMENT IT TAKES A VILLAGE
- 13. LACK OF STAKEHOLDERALIGNMENT Lack of Business Goal Knowledge IT TAKES A VILLAGE Unidentified Stakeholders and Expectations Lack of Clear Goals Lack of Stakeholder Alignment
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- 15. YOU’RE NOT ONEOF THE AVENGERS Police Chief Simon Overland Victoria Police Department, Australia, 2005 Replace an 18 Year Old Criminal Database System Cost = $100 Million AUD HERO TIME ESTIMATES HERO TIME ESTIMATES
- 16. HERO TIME ESTIMATES YOU’RENOT ONE OF THE AVENGERS Project Cancellation Not Meeting Deadlines Poor Quality Deliverables Failure to Properly Schedule Project Plan Inflexibility Poor Resource Management JUNK IN JUNK OUT
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- 18. FAILURE TO COMMUNICATE FAILURETO COMMUNICATE Summer Olympics & G4S London, 2012 G4S Contracted with the Olympic Games to Provide 10,000 Trained Security Personnel Cost = $60 million CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?
- 19. FAILURE TO COMMUNICATE CANYOU HEAR ME NOW? • Managed Expectations • Engaged Stakeholders • Confidence• Transparency On the Same Page Trust Building Tell The Story Propels Engagement
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- 21. HOW TO KNOWYOU GOT TO WHERE YOU WERE GOING British Home Office, 2012 Equip 41,000 British Police Officers with Blackberry Devices Projected Savings = 125 Million GBP UNDEFINED SUCCESS UNDEFINED SUCCESS
- 22. UNDEFINED SUCCESS HOW TOKNOW YOU GOT TO WHERE YOU WERE GOING METRICS • What is important? BASELINE • Where are we today? TARGETS • Where do we want to be?
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