{"id":7919,"date":"2009-12-31T16:37:21","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T20:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/?p=7919"},"modified":"2026-05-07T09:45:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T16:45:39","slug":"about-this-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/?p=7919","title":{"rendered":"Why Projects Fail &#8211; Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following blog is a companion site to the Project Management\u00a0and Project Leadership\u00a0classes\u00a0offered by Canada&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/continuingstudies.sauder.ubc.ca\/programs\/project-management-certificate-online\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">University of British Columbia (UBC), Sauder School of Business &#8211; Professional Growth unit<\/a>. The materials on this site are provided in an effort share knowledge and help organizations develop their Project Management capacity.<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.linkedin.com\/in.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"> lang: en_US<\/script> <script type=\"IN\/FollowCompany\" data-id=\"10641026\"><\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;We tend to seek easy, single-factor explanations of success. For most important things, however, success requires avoiding the many separate causes of failure&#8221; &#8211; Jared Diamond<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In today\u2019s organizations, projects are the stepping-stones of progress. Helping organizations remain relevant in a shifting economy, projects are the endeavors that shape an organization&#8217;s future outcomes. Delivering value through projects however isn&#8217;t always easy and many organizations have experienced the pain that comes from a troubled or failed project. This blog is dedicated to improving project success rates by helping people understanding the causes of project failure and what it takes to make a project a success. Read our introduction to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/?page_id=2213\">why projects fail<\/a><\/strong> or view the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/?page_id=3\">catalogue of catastrophe<\/a><\/strong> to learn more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following blog is a companion site to the Project Management\u00a0and Project Leadership\u00a0classes\u00a0offered by Canada&#8217;s\u00a0University of British Columbia (UBC), Sauder School of Business &#8211; Professional Growth unit. The materials on this site are provided in an effort share knowledge and help organizations develop their Project Management capacity. &#8220;We tend to seek easy, single-factor explanations of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-why-projects-fail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=7919"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10187,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7919\/revisions\/10187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}