{"id":9788,"date":"2025-12-31T11:24:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T19:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/?page_id=9788"},"modified":"2025-12-31T11:50:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T19:50:04","slug":"why-projects-fail","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/?page_id=9788","title":{"rendered":"Why Projects Fail"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br><p>Schedule slippage, quality flaws and budget overruns are the familiar symptoms of a project in trouble. In business projects <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/?page_id=1445\">such problems are sadly all too common<\/a><\/strong> and improving success rates is one of management\u2019s greatest challenges. It&#8217;s estimated that project failures cost the global economy hundreds of billions of dollars annually. To illustrate the point, our <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/?page_id=3\">Catalogue of Catastrophe<\/a><\/strong> provides an ongoing record of some of the most notable and interesting project failures from around the world.<\/p><p>Such loses are a drag on the economy, a threat to the viability of the organizations executing the projects and stressful for the individuals involved. To help organizations improve project success rates, and to act as a learning resource for Project Managers around the world, this site is dedicated to answering the questions &#8220;why do projects fail?&#8221; and &#8220;how can we improve success rates?&#8221;<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The following pages provide a start point for exploring the content in this website:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/?page_id=9780\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/?page_id=9780\"><strong>Start point &#8211; What does success look like<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; Before we can discuss why projects fail it is useful to first agree on what we men by success.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/?page_id=9783\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/?page_id=9783\"><strong>Common classes of project failure<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; Failures come in many shapes and forms there are however common patterns and classifications that help use orientate our understanding of why projects fail<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/?page_id=2213\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/?page_id=2213\"><strong>The role of decision-making<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; Decisions can be thought of as the stepping-stones of progress in a project. As such the outcomes a project achieves is often a reflection of the decisions made. Consistently make good decisions and the chances of success are high. Make poor decisions and the chances of success starts to fade.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/?page_id=9775\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/?page_id=9775\"><strong>Leadership<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; Managers, sponsors, Project Managers, technical leaders lie at the center of the decision making processes and set the tone for a project. Effective leaders set the stage upon which success can be achieved. Poor leadership sows the seeds from which disasters are born.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schedule slippage, quality flaws and budget overruns are the familiar symptoms of a project in trouble. In business projects such problems are sadly all too common and improving success rates is one of management\u2019s greatest challenges. It&#8217;s estimated that project failures cost the global economy hundreds of billions of dollars annually. To illustrate the point, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9788","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9788","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=9788"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9809,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9788\/revisions\/9809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}