Driving Successful Implementations, on Budget and on Time
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
—Denis Waitley
The project was done. My client was informing me over the phone that our project was officially done and we wouldn’t continue working together. By any measure, the project had failed. We didn’t accomplish any of the objectives that we initially talked about despite doing our best for three months.
Projects can fail for a multitude of reasons but this one failed because we didn’t get the buy-in from the engineering team. Unbeknown to me, my client (from the marketing team) didn’t have the best relationship with the CTO. I didn’t do enough to repair this relationship and it ended up halting our entire ...
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