Common Project Management Failure Patterns (And Why We Keep Falling for Them)
If project management were as predictable as our plans suggest, most projects would finish on time, within budget, and with everyone smiling at the go-live meeting. But anyone who has worked on real projects knows that’s not how it usually goes. Projects rarely fail because teams don’t understand project management fundamentals. They fail because the […]
The Art of the “Clean” Close: Why most projects never actually finish and how to avoid the “Zombie Project” phase.
In the world of project management, a Zombie Project is a project that is technically “undead” – not alive enough to succeed, not dead enough to stop consuming resources. It has no clear end date, the original goals have shifted or vanished, the budget is bleeding. It stays on the weekly status report, draining the […]
Risk Management vs Firefighting
Moving from Reacting to Disasters to Predicting Them with Pre-Mortems Most organizations say they care about risk management.What they actually practice is firefighting. Real risk management isn’t about heroic recovery.It’s about preventing the fire in the first place. It rewards urgency, visibility, and action. The people who rush in during a crisis look decisive and […]