What Successful Organizations Know About Project Management
Forrester Research, Inc., May 2006
by Margo Visitacion
with Laurie M. Orlov and Lauren Sessions
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
If project management failure rates are as high as we’re lead to believe, why try to do projects at all? But Forrester believes that the state of project management is far better than what the headlines say. A project’s outcome cannot be pigeonholed simply as successful, challenged, or failed; outcomes are too specific and are part of a situational reality for the organizations that implement them. Companies are becoming smarter about which project management approaches work. The challenge is creating an environment that fosters success — as defined by your organization. To achieve successful project delivery, firms use common sense practices. The key is making them part of the organizational culture through education, reinforcement, demonstration, and measured results.
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