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What three things may contribute to project implementation failures and what might have been done to prevent them?

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This posting describes three things that contribute to project implementation failure.

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Three things that may contribute to project implementation failure are unclear objectives, scope creep, and limited resources.

Unclear objectives: Project objectives are what the project team plans to achieve, if the team members are not aligned on project goals, success cannot be measured. If the project objectives are not specific, time-bound, and cannot be measured easily, the team cannot be aligned or even be confident that the project was a success. To prevent this, objectives can be set before the project commences, which can guide the team better. The setting of ...

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