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Despite Janice’s apparent inability to count, Groundwork for Project Success is a terrific article. Damn, that girl writes […]

Despite Janice’s apparent inability to count, Groundwork for Project Success is a terrific article. Damn, that girl writes real good.

“Why Projects Go Awry
If you’ve been working on the Web for any length of time, you’ve either experienced or witnessed some real train wrecks. Here are the top ten ways that projects fail:

  1. The project gets bogged down in approvals.
  2. Your assumptions about project goals are way off base.
  3. You discover halfway through that the scope is much greater than you’d imagined.
  4. Feature creep. Your client continues to add little bits of functionality until you’re behind schedule and over budget.
  5. Disenfranchised people become obstacles.
  6. Nobody listens to you, even though you’re supposedly in charge.
  7. Nobody understands what you’re saying, maybe because you don’t have the same understanding of the project.
  8. Someone important and powerful (like the CEO) hates the final solution a week before launch.
  9. Your proposed solution can’t be implemented.”

any proposals for number ten?

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  2. 2
    christina

    damn, you pick nits real good.

    it’s called poetic license. like “I’m gonna go kill me some gopher”

    This is what you get when you invoke Strunk….

  3. 3
    Sandra

    I have often noticed that saying things like “blow them up real good” do not come across well over the ether. I guess you have to see the persons face and hear the slight sing-songy quality in their voice when they say “good” instead of “well” on purpose in order to get it 100% of the time.

    Plus, it’s only fair that if you are going to correct someone, that you correctly correct them, such as saying “really well” instead of “real well.”

    I done pick nits real good mice elf.

  4. 4
    janice fraser

    Ah, the joys of repurposing content for the web…the original manuscript and the printed version have this as number 10:

    10. Your proposed solution can’t be implemented

    Thanks for the props, christina.

  6. 6
    janice fraser

    [blush], the omitted item was actually, heh, the original Number Nine:

    “The final solution, though cool, doesn’t solve the original problem.”

    (Soon I’ll learn to count *and* read.)

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