How to prevent your project from failing
Any project has a probability to fail, here are some actions to prevent your project from failure:-
1- Use the right approach: the right approach is according to the project’s circumstances and customer nature for example if your customer is not very clear about the final product specifications and business requirements then make sure that you divided you project into small iterations and get approval from the customer for each iteration, in this approach you will ensure that you are building the right product and getting feedback sooner as much as you can, finally you must study your customer, environment and stakeholders very preciously and select the appropriate approach.
2- Get the best team you can afford: make sure that you spent enough time in “Required Skills Analysis” activity, try to get the best team matching the results from the analysis because having such team will ensure high quality results in less time. If you can’t get the best team to be allocated all the time try to have experienced people part time to check and make sure that you and your team are going on the right track.
3- Plan to fail: as mentioned above, there is no project with no probability to fail so you with your team must identity all risks might affect the project and build your contingency plan to mitigate those risks, go and ask for 25% from you baseline budget extra for contingency which will keep you in the safe side.
4- Keep everybody on the same page: from day one, from kickoff meeting keep this practice alive “Keep everybody on the same page” everybody must know if he should know this piece of information, having this knowledge sharing and transparency between all stakeholders and team members ensures full co- operative attitude for project ownership and success.
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