Project Management
IT Enemy No. 1:
Half-Baked Ideas
Computerworld -
The No. 1 problem in IT project management is that too many half-baked ideas are launched as projects, says Gopal K. Kapur, president of the Center for Project Management in San Ramon, Calif. "The staff indulges the bosses [who come up with half-baked ideas]. The higher the boss, the more indulgence," Kapur says.
But there may be something valuable buried in that half-baked idea. The key is to ask questions designed to filter out the babble and find the value. Kapur suggests asking the following:
The second-biggest problem: executives who say they're the "sponsor" of the project but don't devote enough time to oversight.
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