http://www.robbyonrails.com/articles/2007/03/12/poor-communication-and-it-projects en-us 40 thoughts.sort_by{|t| t[:topic]}.collect <p>InformationWeek has a short story titled, <a href="http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=198000251&#38;cid=RSSfeed_IWK_All">Poor Communications, Unrealistic Scheduling Lead To IT Project Failure</a>.</p> <blockquote>&#8220;Communications failures top the list of reasons IT projects fail, according to poll results from the Computing Technology Industry Association. <br /><br /> About 28% of 1,000 respondents identified poor communications as the main cause of project failure, according to CompTIA, which offers project management training.&#8221; </blockquote> <p>So, while we&#8217;re all spending so much of our time focused on improving our technical skills, are we also investing our time into becoming communication superstars?</p> <p>If you look back at the following posts, you&#8217;ll see some links to some excellent books on this topic.</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.robbyonrails.com/articles/2006/09/27/project-enlightenment-with-d3">Project Enlightenment with d3</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.robbyonrails.com/articles/2006/09/12/the-technology-of-dialogue">The Technology of Dialogue</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.robbyonrails.com/articles/2007/01/04/those-that-tend-the-store-need-dialogue">Those that Tend the Store need Dialogue</a></li> </ul> Mon, 12 Mar 2007 17:25:00 -0500 urn:uuid:01265ea4-f529-4442-919e-5f25b676766b Robby Russell http://www.robbyonrails.com/articles/2007/03/12/poor-communication-and-it-projects d3 projects dialogue communication agile