Early Warning Signs of it Project Failure: The Dominant Dozen

Leon A. Kappelman A professor of information systems, director emeritus of the IS Research Center, and a Fellow of the Texas Center for Digital Knowledge at the University of North Texas. His project management consulting includes the White House and United Nations. His email is [email protected].

Robert McKeeman An IT project management consultant and speaker with more than 20 years of experience. He has an MBA from Harvard Business School and is Project Management Professional #2130 with the Project Management Institute.

Lixuan Zhang An assistant professor in the School of Business and Economics at the College of Charleston.

Abstract

The postmortem examination of failed IT projects reveals that long before the failure there were significant symptoms or “early warning signs.” This article describes the top 12 people-related and project-related IT project risks, based on “early warning sign” data collected from a panel of 19 experts and a survey of 55 IT project managers.

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