Change Management in IT
Overcoming IT Project Failure
Any enterprises' ability to remain agile and quick to respond to external opportunities and threats is in large part predicated on the innate skill sets of the project and programme managers guiding projects in progress. The synchronized efforts of project and programme managers working in conjunction with cross-functional department leads and senior management form the foundation that assures an enterprise can change rapidly in response to opportunities and threats. Not only is this ability to manage change at a corporate, cross-functional level important, it is an essential attribute of any effectively managed organization (Partington, Pellegrinelli, Young, 2005). In the case of exceptionally costly and time-consuming project failures, the capacity of project and programme managers, in addition to entire enterprises to recover from setbacks and develop a corporate-wide resilience is essential if change is going to be made an innate strength of the enterprise (Lycett, Rassau, Danson, 2004).
Taking Change Into Account In Overcoming IT Project Failures
The mindset of enterprises and the engrained nature of how they perceive failure has a direct influence on how change is perceived and valued or not in their cultures. The greater the acceptance of failure as a means to continually improve...
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