Today i was reading this article when I came across a very thought provoking comment from Hemant Kogekar. On the subject of great universal lies, he says, I quote,
17. Project success is being on time, on quality and on budget
“As we all know, a project is successful only when the business gets the promised benefits.”
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Those of us who have spent time in IT and Projects would know of the number of times success criteria has been defined as above, on time, on quality, on budget.
And yet, business never even blinked when a new release was operationalised in IT. More often it has been shouting when projects ever slightly tweak the user interface / service delivery to adopt the new release - discounting the opportunity / benefits that has been envisaged in the project.
Isn't it time we all started to define the measurement of a project by business outcome? How will you measure success of a project?
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