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Are Your Projects Chaotic?
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The 2009 Chaos Report from the Standish group shows that projects are still failing at an alarming rate. Less than a third of all projects were considered to be successful. This means that over two thirds are late, over budget or fail to deliver the defined business benefits.

These facts may surprise many but the most surprising thing of all is that things are getting worse instead of better. The quotation below is taken directly from the report.

"These numbers represent a downtick in the success rates from the previous study, as well as a significant increase in the number of failures" and "They are low point in the last five study periods. This year's results represent the highest failure rate in over a decade".

Sound familiar?

Do your projects have an address in Chaos Alley?

Are your project teams in a constant state of shock?

Sceptical? Read the Standish Group's press release yourself here.

How Can You Make Your Projects Work?

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When blame is being assigned for yet another project failure, the likely candidates are project managers, suppliers, customers, users, technology or any one of a million other sources.

However, senior executives must stand up to the mark and accept responsibility. Projects mostly fail for systemic organisational reasons that are the responsibility of the senior management team.

Project Management Edge is a dedicated project management company helping organisations to make their projects work. Our products and services cover all of the necessary elements including:

Project management development and training
Project management governance
Project benefits management
Business case development
Process improvement and benchmarking

Want happy and successful Project teams?

Read how we can work together to make your projects work here.

Project Coaching Case Study
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Project coaching takes a coaching approach to helping and developing project management people such as project managers, project sponsors, project directors, and executives who may be interested in or who may be responsible for project management improvement programmes.

Coaching interventions are customised to meet individual needs. The focus is on developing the person’s project management skills and knowledge and identifying and changing behaviours that are critical for effective performance.

Read about how project coaching helped one struggling project manager to enhance his project management skills and his value to his organisation by helping it to grow and prosper through successful projects.

Read the full case study here.

Multiple Services Case Study
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A small but growing electrical services company secured several public service contracts. These projects were complex and at the leading edge of technology.

The public bodies concerned had reasonably mature project management processes and expected the electrical services company to interface with their project management processes in a professional and seamless way. This was a concern for the electrical services company who had immature project management processes with no formal process for managing projects.

They had managed in the past because they were a small well run company with very experienced and dedicated employees. However, they were growing fast and the new realities dictated that they undertake a project management improvement initiative.

Read the full case study here.

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