Sometimes you do everything in your power and the project still can't be saved. It may not even have anything to do with anything you or your team did or failed to do right. Projects can go south for reasons outside of our control. You can follow every PM standard, practice and guideline. You can produce status reports and project plans that should be placed on some sort of ‘wall of fame’ somewhere. But no matter what you do, the project is doomed to fail – or at least not truly succeed. This can be, of course, for any one of a number of reasons. Some common ones are:
- Funding pulled
- Key staff lost to a more critical project
- Customer direction changed mid-stream due to their own internal issues or changes
- Your own management decided not to pursue this work any further (rare, but it does happen)
- And many, many more…
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