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Project failure is not a nice topic. None of us want to be involved in a failure. But when a failure occurs, we feel compelled to assign blame. But who to blame and how to avoid the same problems [...]

Most projects fail, especially enterprise software acquisition and implementation projects, because companies don’t understand how a new software system will be expected to fit into their company [...]

…a project’s objectives and critical expectations must be fully described and documented, in all its phases, prior to contacting consulting firms or software sellers if the project is [...]

Some common ways for inadequate access to key people to manifest itself: Managers are expected to speak for their employees in cases where they – the managers – don’t really understand the [...]

Nothing dooms any project as effectively as not involving the right people. When it comes to ERP, the “right people” are every person in the company who will use the system or be affected by what [...]