Poor Communication and IT Projects 1
InformationWeek has a short story titled, Poor Communications, Unrealistic Scheduling Lead To IT Project Failure.
“Communications failures top the list of reasons IT projects fail, according to poll results from the Computing Technology Industry Association.
About 28% of 1,000 respondents identified poor communications as the main cause of project failure, according to CompTIA, which offers project management training.”
So, while we’re all spending so much of our time focused on improving our technical skills, are we also investing our time into becoming communication superstars?
If you look back at the following posts, you’ll see some links to some excellent books on this topic.
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You are undoubtably correct that communication is required for a successfull project.
I do wounder though how often communication gets blamed simply because its the “safest” culpurit
How many consultants would say:
I don’t think anyone would say that to the client, it is much easier to just blame it on communication instead of actually communicating the details of the failure.
Just my 2-cents