Our last Project Management Insight article considered how we can learn from mistakes on our projects. ‘Project Failures’ are more common than most of us would like to acknowledge, although some care is necessary in defining ‘failure’. This post is the first of two which consider common avoidable failures in project delivery and how we can learn from the mistakes of others! As John Keats (1795 – 1821) said:
Don’t be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.
