Anatomy of Project Failure
from AI Governance with Dr Darryl Hosted by Dr Darryl
Bram Stoker’s character, Professor Van Helsing in Dracula, said “we learn from failure, not from success!”. This is a favourite quotation of mine, and with forty years of managing IT projects, I have spent the last ten years studying IT project failure. And I have developed some ‘minority opinions’. My interest in why projects fail was sparked by a question attributed to the former Chief Information Officer at the Treasury Board of Canada, who raised his hand at a Standish Group presentation in 1995. The question has come to be known as Cobb’s Paradox: ‘We know why projects fail, we know how to prevent their failure – so why do they still fail?’
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