When I ask teams to look back at a decision they made that didn’t work out as they had envisaged, they are frequently able to come up with one or more different alternatives that would have resulted in a very different outcome. While seeing such alternatives after the event is a useful learning exercise, it’s […]
Posts from ‘August, 2008’
Unconscious Option Adoption
Although making decisions is a part of our everyday lives, we rarely stop to think about how we make them. Given the central role that decision making plays in a technology project, an understanding of the ways in which individuals and groups make decisions is a valuable tool for those who hold leadership roles. One […]
Top of the Pops
I recently carried out a review of the various “top 10 reasons for project failure” lists that pop up on the internet on a regular basis. These lists tend to be popular and as such are frequently referenced in training sessions and blogs. Not surprisingly these lists have common themes. Collating the most frequent into […]