{"id":436,"date":"2008-09-21T16:48:12","date_gmt":"2008-09-21T20:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/?page_id=436"},"modified":"2022-12-26T13:04:04","modified_gmt":"2022-12-26T21:04:04","slug":"catalogue-of-catastrophy-faq","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/?page_id=436","title":{"rendered":"Catalogue of Catastrophe FAQ"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. What constitutes a project failure?\u00a0<\/strong>
    \nSuccess and failure are certainly very subjective.\u00a0 The “Catalogue of Catastrophe<\/a>” reflects those projects that have been\u00a0cancelled due to quality or delivery problems, those that have encountered significant budget or schedule overruns and those projects that have gone live resulting in significant service disruption to users or the public.<\/li>\n
  2. Why are so many projects from the UK, Australia and the USA,\u00a0what about the rest of the world?\u00a0<\/strong>
    \nFor a number of reasons:\u00a0 English is my first language\u00a0and hence I read\u00a0press reports and blogs written in English.The media in certain countries are more interested in exposing troubled projects than in others. The UK and Australia win the award for having the most “proactive”<\/em> media and project failures are\u00a0commonly covered. In contrast, the media in other nations pay less attention and\u00a0often even major disasters only warrant a brief mention (if at all). Ultimately I believe all countries suffer the same problems and the projects in the catalogue should be seen as representative samples only.<\/li>\n
  3. Why are so many projects government projects?<\/strong>
    \nGovernment projects are subject to more public scrutiny than those in the private sector.\u00a0 The use of public funds and the transparency involved in government projects mean that it is easier for the media to get information concerning\u00a0public sector projects.\u00a0Project failures in the\u00a0private sector\u00a0usually only come to light if the project causes major service disruptions to the public or if legal action is taken following the collapse of a project.\u00a0 Despite the differing situations, most readers will likely recognize that the private sector has its own fair share of\u00a0 troubled projects even if they are not publicized.<\/li>\n
  4. Are you able to accurately identify the root causes of these failures?
    \n<\/strong>Where available\u00a0contributing causes are included in each posting.\u00a0 It should however be noted that although these reports give clues to the issues that resulted in problems they generally give too little information to establish with certainty what went wrong.\u00a0 Because these reports are filtered through journalists rather than those who specialise in studying troubled projects, the contributing factors are often an over simplification of the real dynamics that lead to failure.<\/li>\n
  5. Why are the projects listed so large, surely smaller projects fail as well?
    \n<\/strong>Many smaller projects certainly do run into the same types of problems as those listed in the catalogue. These projects however rarely make the press and hence go unreported.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    What constitutes a project failure?\u00a0 Success and failure are certainly very subjective.\u00a0 The “Catalogue of Catastrophe” reflects those projects that have been\u00a0cancelled due to quality or delivery problems, those that have encountered significant budget or schedule overruns and those projects that have gone live resulting in significant service disruption to users or the public. Why […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":3,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-436","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9449,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/436\/revisions\/9449"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}