Why do so many online projects continue to fail spectacularly? The reasons are naturally many and varied.
The J. Boye blog has zoomed in on some of the issues in previous postings on web project management; a recent post was about the risks of constant experimentation and perpetual beta releases.
Alan Pelz-Sharpe, principal at the Real Story Group (formerly CMS Watch) argues that it really isn’t that hard to prevent flops and failures; that there are several preparations you can make and precautions you can take in order to set yourself up for success. Alan’s opening keynote on the web project management track will focus on some of the many things you can do to prevent project failures.
Alan’s colleague, fellow analyst Jarrod Gingras for example recently highlighted the importance of hands-on education of staff / other stakeholders. An entirely different obstacle to project success is the lack of proper post-launch planning; we will have a whole session in Philadelphia on the post launch paradigm with 3 distinguished experts towards the end of the web project management track.
Warm up with a free webinar on project failures given by Alan himself on Tuesday 27th April at 11am EDT.
