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Project Success Factors - Lessons Learned

Characteristics of Successful Projects

  • Executives show passionate support
  • Dedicated teams
  • Alignment behind common vision
  • Impacts of change clearly established
  • Accountability/Responsibility
  • View change as an on-going process
  • Use metrics and incentives to drive desired behaviours
  • Undersell, over-deliver
  • Tendency toward common ground

Characteristics of Unsuccessful Projects

  • Lack of sustained leadership commitment
  • Constant competition for resources
  • No clear goals, vision or strategy
  • Unclear how project will alter jobs, processes, etc.
  • No consequences
  • See change as an event
  • No alignment of measurement and reward system with target outcomes
  • Lots of "transformation talk"
  • Clear winners and losers

 

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