12.7. Declaring Failure
No one likes to be called a loser. Unfortunately, some projects can make the project manager, the project team, and all associated parties feel like failures. How many projects are started, stopped, and rearranged, only to complete the cycle again and again without ever getting anywhere near the projected deliverables?
For a project to be a success, it must include these things:
A vision of the project's deliverables
Adequate skills by the project manager
Adequate skills by the project team
Enough finances to provide for the resources to complete the implementation
Time to complete the work to produce the deliverables
Change management to protect the project scope
Commitment from the project manager, project sponsor, the project ...
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