Why IT Projects Fail, part 2
2003 July 25
- Risk management is not part of our vocabulary. We want people who are optimistic, not trying to find reasons why something will fail.
- IT does not understand that the change that they are introducing is very disruptive. Of course, neither does management. IT projects normally have a great affect on the way that business gets done. People’s jobs are threatened. They have gotten used to a certain way of doing business.
- Changes to the IT infrastructure are treated more like changes to a business’s plumbing rather than a reworking of how things get done.
