Killing IT Projects Takes Courage

Almost every company of any size has IT (Information Technology) projects at various stages of completion. Many of these may have consumed substantial resources and and yet they wander in the desert of incompleteness and sub par results. Can you afford this?

Why is it so hard to kill obviously deficient projects?

The answer is painful. Something is broken in your organization and rather than confront the root cause, you let the project erode more resources.

Do you need help evaluating your infrastructure and returning value to your business instead of cost? Outside help can often serve as the catalyst to getting the right IT road map in place.

Part of the reason that IT continues as a cost center is because leadership allows costs to accumulate and avoids the hard work of an honest assessment free from internal bias.  Another reason is that some IT projects do not fail spectacularly. They simply limp along eroding resources without returning the value promised when the project was started.

It takes courage to kill an IT project that is under performing.

 

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