7 Signs Business Stakeholders Will Sink Your IT Project
CIO, Tuesday, August 6th, 2024
IT leaders can reduce project failure risk by regularly touching base with users and stakeholders and immediately stepping when they sense a change in the 'project pulse.'
IT projects fail at alarming rates - nearly 70% of them, according to project management tool provider TeamStage. Common factors of project failure are missed deadlines, blown budgets, or deliverables that fail to meet original objectives.
CIOs and project managers understand these risks. They do everything they can on the IT side to address them. They pay keen attention to business requirements. They set and manage expectations and guard against scope creep. And they keep on top of project budgets.
But what if your problem isn't IT but with the users themselves?