M1 explain why projects can fail

A key finding is that there is no one overriding factor that causes project failure. A number of factors are involved in any particular project failure, some of which interact with each other. Here are five of the most important reasons for failure presented by me. Lack of user involvement has proved fatal for many projects. Without user involvement nobody in the business feels committed to a system, and can even be hostile to it. If a project is to be a success senior management and users need to be involved from the start, and continuously throughout the development.

This requires time and effort, and when the people in a business are already stretched, finding time for a new project is not high on their priorities. Therefore senior management need to continuously support the project to make it clear to staff it is a priority. Long timescales for a project have led to systems being delivered for products and services no longer in use by an organisation.

The key recommendation is that project timescales should be short, which means that larger systems should be split into separate projects. There are always problems with this approach, but the benefits of doing so are considerable. Many projects have high level, vague, and generally unhelpful requirements. This has led to cases where the developers, having no input from the users, build what they believe is needed, without having any real knowledge of the business.

Certainly when the system is delivered business users say it does not do what they need it to. This is closely linked to lack of user involvement, but goes beyond it. Users must know what it is they want, and be able to specify it precisely. Projects can have a number of reasons as to why they can fail e. This is an example of a project that failed because the inventor of the Sinclair C5 named Clive Sinclair pictured below came up with the idea of creating a battery electric operated vehicle.

This failed miserably because it was not commercially successful as well as it not being suitable and appropriate in terms of safety, this is because unlike a car as a vehicle the Sinclair C5 had a seat that was quite substantially low down an example shown next to a car pictured below so if for example the person pictured below driving the Sinclair C5 wanted to make a left or right turn firstly unlike a car the Sinclair C5 does not have any indicators to enable the driver to do this and let the person behind them know that they would like to make a left or right turn, so therefore this may involve the driver of the Sinclair C5 needing to stick his left or right arm depending on which direction he wants to go out to let the person know behind him that he would like to change his direction.

This could also prove dangerous because if a driver of a car was travelling at reckless speeds they may just end up dislocating the arm of the person who is driving the Sinclair C5. This is an example of a project that failed because former athlete turned British Politician Sebastian Coe otherwise known as Lord Coe was in theory the person responsible for substantially estimating the incorrect amount of security guards from G4S who needed to be in place for the one of the biggest games in British history where people from across the globe travelled to see it in action which was named the London Olympics.

Due to the fact Lord Coe was held responsible for this grave mistake on more that one occasion it meant that the security company G4S were making a substantial amount of money as well as profit because the figures of necessary security guards needed for the London Olympics was again on more than one occasion incorrect, because of this monumental mistake it meant that the armed forces had to sacrifice their time to carry out the jobs that G4S were meant to carry out but could not carry out because they did not have enough security guards to fulfil the demands of Lord Coe in terms of his actual figure of security guards that were required at the London Olympics.

Not only this but HMV failed when trying to expand and diversify into the entertainment market further one example is that they tried to increase sales with customers by selling at a fee digital downloads and music players but however Apple Inc. In summary, we can conclude that the Sinclair c5 failed because Clive Sinclair could not find a solution to his problems as they both did not match, as well as this the second project that I expanded on which was the G4s London Olympics security, failed because firstly, Sebastian Coe gave G4s an incorrect amount of figures in terms of the security guards that were required for the London Olympics and secondly the G4s London Olympics security failed because G4s failed to understand that they did not have enough time to obtain 8, more staff and train them ready to be security guards at one of the biggest games in British History.

Finally the third and final project I decided to expand on which was about the retail merchandise company named HMV they failed as a retail company simply because they had a lack of understanding about the marketplace. If you fail to meet the goal which you have set and due to failing to meet the goal you will be unable to meet the deadline and have the project completed by then which will then mark your project that you are handling as a failure project.

From today till the end day off the deadline of all the assignments and the last day of submission if I fail to hand in all the work and get my grades then I will be losing out on university, so to avoid these risk I would write down the assignments I need to do and complete the unit before the end of the college year to get my grades and get into university. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account.

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. Estimation You will also have estimation on how long the project will take to complete as a whole project. Quality The quality of the work has to be good to make the project successful and to show that you can handle a project and that the project is finished to the quality of the owners of the project and the planning given for the project.

Leadership The leader of the group or the organisation should so some actions and give guidance to the group and show that you are there tracking their work and to show that you as a leader or on top of the head and keeping a n eye on the workers so they do their job properly and that they complete their job on time so that project completes on the given deadline and that the project is successful and it shows the project owners that you as a leader of a group is good.