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Why Don't we Learn from Project failure?

Posted by: OneOne Hundred on 24 Apr 2009

Tagged in: prospect theory , project failure , PRINCE2 , PAC , NAO , lessons learned , groupthink

Why we are not learning from Project Failures

With approximately 70% of all IT-enabled projects considered to be failures, a question that is regularly asked is "Why do projects fail?" There have been extensive studies on this subject, but perhaps a more pertinent question should be "How do we learn from project failure?" A good starting point for such learning would be to consider the lessons learnt from individual projects and to build this leaning into improvements in our project methodologies.

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