DISTRESSED PROJECTS

Regardless of the causes, failed BI and data migration projects waste billions of pounds (and hours) each year. Vendors will inevitably hype BI, analytics, and big data and its necessary to understand that executing these projects required good understanding of business and business processes, careful planning and excellent execution – along with a good sprinkling of luck.


In our experience, simply following prescribed procedural methodologies doesn’t result in successful BI projects, in fact, the overwhelming evidence is to the contrary. According to Gartner, 70 to 80 percent of BI projects fail to deliver, or don’t meet expectations.

Typical signs that a project is in distress include:

  • The customer has lost confidence that the project team will ever deliver the promised outcome.
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  • The team is very defensive about its progress.
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  • Management has lost its ability to control progress or even to find out the project’s status with any accuracy.
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  • PM’s are “throwing more resources at the problem” (and hoping for a miracle).
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  • Team members are working excessive hours but reporting far fewer.
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  • Relations between project team members and between client and project leadership are strained.
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  • Poor vendor (subcontractor) contracting and performance.
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  • The morale of project team has hit rock bottom and team members start quitting.
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    We will review the project and provide a non-biased, independent evaluation of project survival prospects.




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