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Project Assessment

Project Management is a well-established discipline with an abundance of “methodologies” and “standards”. Despite this, projects continually fail to deliver promised results on time, within budget or within the specified quality.

Projects fail to achieve maximum business results, or performance goals are not met, are late, or are over budget usually because of the following: When a project is out of control and failing, over budget and out of scope, a structured review of the project deliverables and milestones with an eye towards getting back on track is required.
 * The goal of the project isn't defined properly.
 * The goal of the project is defined properly but then changes to it aren't controlled.
 * The project is planned properly but then it isn't resourced as was planned.
 * The project is planned such that it has no contingency.
 * The project isn't planned properly.
 * The project isn't led properly
 * The expectations of project participants aren't managed.
 * The project progress isn’t monitored and controlled properly.
 * Project reporting is inadequate or non-existent.
 * When projects get in to trouble, management processes become paralyzed.

Improvement
To improve the any project’s success, what is required is to have an approach which:
 * Provides the ability to clearly define the project goal.
 * Provides a change control system.
 * Provides a way of ensuring that planned resourcing is achieved.
 * Provides a way of including contingency in the plan.
 * Provides an upfront production of detailed project plans.
 * Ensues that project managers are accountable for project outcome.
 * Ensures that the expectations of project participants are successfully fulfilled.
 * Provides simple and effective monitoring and control methods.
 * Provides simple and effective reporting mechanisms.
 * Provides a corrective action-plan for when the projects get into trouble