Adventures in home working » Project management http://steves.seasidelife.com I'm Steve Richards a strategist and all round tech enthusiast working on enterprise desktop, application delivery and collaboration solutions. I work from home by the coast in the North West of England. All the views expressed in this blog are my own. Mon, 01 Aug 2011 10:58:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 How many of your projects don’t succeed? http://steves.seasidelife.com/2008/03/18/how-many-of-your-projects-dont-succeed/ http://steves.seasidelife.com/2008/03/18/how-many-of-your-projects-dont-succeed/#comments Tue, 18 Mar 2008 11:05:22 +0000 Steve Richards http://steves.seasidelife.com/2008/03/18/how-many-of-your-projects-dont-succeed/ I’ve long known that a significant number of projects fail and that even more don’t succeed and I’ve read plenty of books that try to dig into why.   Oft cited are poor requirements, poor customer engagement etc but I liked this snipit that seems to sum up my experience:

The reason these applications don’t succeed is that the majority of implementations don’t focus on succeeding but rather they focus on not failing.

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