Getting troubled projects back on track.

Have you ever been part of an IT project that started with high hopes and fanfare, but ended up behind schedule, over budget, and ultimately in trouble?.

This scenario might sound like a professional nightmare, but for many IT project managers it has at some point been an unwelcome and dreaded reality. In fact, according to a 2007 Dynamic Markets Limited study for Computing Technology Industry Association, 62 percent of all organizations indicated they had IT projects fail to meet their schedules, with 41 percent saying the projects did not provide the promised benefits to the business and almost half finding unexpectedly high maintenance costs.
 
The story these findings tell is clear — keeping IT projects on track is a challenge for even the most experienced project managers. But when things go wrong there are some clear steps you can take, in a timely way, to identify the problem, analyze the causes and get back on track.

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