BlueWorld Project Intervention

Reducing the risk of Project Failure

We have found that projects fail when both the software partner and the customer are not in sync with the objectives for the project. There is also abdication of responsibility from Senior Management for fear of embarrassment or role in a project.

The processes in failing projects tend to be either poorly documented or undermined by a lack of serious requirements gathering at the outset. This leads to poorly created project plans and resource deficiencies of the right personnel at the right time.

Another big danger is disgruntled staff sabotaging the efforts to have a successful outcome by omitting information or inputting data likely to cause a system to fall over. This normally happens when Senior Management do not see the implementation as anything other than a task for the subordinate staff members to handle. There can be an over reliance on Software Partners to over promise and then fail to back up the delivery because of a lack of resources or skills or even both.

There are times when the client expects unreasonable timescales for project milestones by not understanding the complexities of the new solution or the requirements of internal client's staff to be made available. This is also a failing of the partner company too who may be very well out of their depth or area of expertise to advise accordingly. How does BlueWorld differ from the norm?

How does BlueWorld differ from the norm?

We provide a business analysis of the situation, this may be a thorough analysis or a cut down requirements process, which will give the client and ourselves a better understanding of where you are and what are the client's objectives. We also implant good planning and training and this can be done by our in-house staff or one of our collaborative management consultancy partners to provide a high quality and relevant document and roadmap. We do not believe in the ‘big bang' approach to project delivery, this creates enormous tensions and stress and increased costs to any customer adopting this approach.

We have fully adopted the Microsoft SureStep Methodology for Project performance and control and this enables both BlueWorld and our clients to quickly develop winning processes and control over any project that was deemed to be failing.