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Trey Crowdus 
www.ITProjectTurnaround.com 
July 9, 2014
IT Project FAILURE! How to Avoid this Fate
IT Project FAILURE! How to Avoid this Fate
IT Project FAILURE! How to Avoid this Fate
Excellent Choice; you are still here! 
What do you do now? 
You may need to assess any of a number of areas that can be adding 
to the problems on the project.
 Personnel 
 Requirements 
 Use Cases 
 Test Plans 
 Budget 
 Schedule 
 Vendor 
 Status Reports 
 Change Management 
 Technology 
 Infrastructure 
 Technical Specs 
 Communication 
 External View 
 Executives 
Working through this list is, indeed, a tremendous 
amount of work – So what's the next step?
Two key components of SUCCESS: 
Requirements 
Communication
IT Project FAILURE! How to Avoid this Fate
IT Project FAILURE! How to Avoid this Fate
Requirements are Two Things Only 
The Fundamental building blocks 
– for the deliverables from the Project Team. 
The Definition of success 
– for your enterprise strategic IT Project.
IT Project FAILURE! How to Avoid this Fate
 Therefore: Solving communication issues can 
be the greatest obstacle in a project. 
 In a project turnaround, sides or cliques may 
be established and communication may be 
non-existent between the client and the 
vendors. 
 And authentic communication between all 
groups will lead to the ability to 
collaboratively resolve all issues, which leads 
to a successful project.
IT Project FAILURE! How to Avoid this Fate
Budget 
Schedule 
Scope 
Quality 
And your Project can start to move back on track.
IT Project FAILURE! How to Avoid this Fate
 www.ITProjectTurnaround.com 
Or contact Trey Crowdus at: 
 tcrowdus@wc3enterprises.com 
 512-522-3460 
 Twitter: @TreyCrowdus 
 Linkedin: http://goo.gl/ihkJ5P

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IT Project FAILURE! How to Avoid this Fate

  • 5. Excellent Choice; you are still here! What do you do now? You may need to assess any of a number of areas that can be adding to the problems on the project.
  • 6.  Personnel  Requirements  Use Cases  Test Plans  Budget  Schedule  Vendor  Status Reports  Change Management  Technology  Infrastructure  Technical Specs  Communication  External View  Executives Working through this list is, indeed, a tremendous amount of work – So what's the next step?
  • 7. Two key components of SUCCESS: Requirements Communication
  • 10. Requirements are Two Things Only The Fundamental building blocks – for the deliverables from the Project Team. The Definition of success – for your enterprise strategic IT Project.
  • 12.  Therefore: Solving communication issues can be the greatest obstacle in a project.  In a project turnaround, sides or cliques may be established and communication may be non-existent between the client and the vendors.  And authentic communication between all groups will lead to the ability to collaboratively resolve all issues, which leads to a successful project.
  • 14. Budget Schedule Scope Quality And your Project can start to move back on track.
  • 16.  www.ITProjectTurnaround.com Or contact Trey Crowdus at:  tcrowdus@wc3enterprises.com  512-522-3460  Twitter: @TreyCrowdus  Linkedin: http://goo.gl/ihkJ5P