5 principles to reduce the likelihood of failure of an IT project

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Well, yes, the next five principles. Not everyone will help, but it will be harmless to get acquainted: when the next project fails, we can say "we have not complied with the five principles." First of all, it is recommended to people with subordinates and those who are going to get these same subordinates to get

92% of large-scale IT projects that fail.

In any company, large or small, reputation is the most important asset, and you want your projects to be part of these very 8% successful. If your projects fail, you will not see part of the 514.5 billionth IT market.

The following 5 principles will allow you to take steps to ensure that your projects are completed on time, on budget and successfully. Read, learn, remember, tell others and make them your habit.

1.Communication. If everyone who is involved in your project does not know what he is working on, when it needs to be completed, how it should be done and for whom this product is, then how can you expect success in the project? All other steps are based on communication. Expectations, goals, resources, timelines, priorities, reports and budgets - all this should be available to your team so that it can carry out its work efficiently. Tools like web conferencing allow your Hyderabad developer to show you their screen to accurately reproduce the worst mistake in your application.

2. Consolidation.Here we talk about information and tasks. Remember your usual day and tell me how often you interrupted in the middle of work on a task in order to do something else; only honestly. How much time did you spend looking for one specific letter among hundreds in your inbox? And looking for the file you need on the disk that you forgot where you saved? And opening files in search of the latest version, or, worse, working with an obsolete version? Or in search of someone who could explain the essence of the problem? What about writing reports? Almost every company is able to improve these processes by reducing the number of garbage tasks and placing data in a convenient access, but this is not easy - it will have to change.

3. Priorities.Every day tasks appear, errors are found, new functionality is invented. By itself, any of the elements in this list will not be critical for achieving your business goals, but your team will not be able to know which of the tasks is most important until someone from the management tells them about it. Priorities tell your team how important it is to solve this particular problem right now. Assigning priorities and observing their fulfillment, no matter the task or problem, will allow your team to work more efficiently.

4. Requirements.When planning your application’s and development’s life cycle, you don’t have to do anything before you define, prioritize and approve the requirements for your application or project. Requirements - this is what your application or project should include to meet your business goals. After these basic steps have been completed, you need to discuss them again with all those involved in the process - both with the developers and the management. Requirements management should be carried out throughout the project; poor management of requirements leads to various delays and unforeseen expenses.

5. Time management.As with any other management, it is your job to take the first steps in forming adequate terms and stages of the project for your team. The keyword is adequate. Quite a lot of tools allow you to estimate how much time it takes for a certain type of task. If you use these tools in each project of your company, then after a short period of time you will have the opportunity to fairly accurately predict how long this or that task will take. Arrange the proposed steps in the project schedule and write them down! Upon completion and recording of each stage, you will have a clear picture of how your project in development meets business goals.

Strict adherence to these 5 principles will lead you to the 8% elite. You will not be able to portray them: set standards, look for tools and make everyone in your team follow them. Simply proclaiming these principles will not lead your project into a group of rare successful projects. You must make them a part of your daily life and implement them in a team and among other managers, and then you can observe with a smirk that you are not breaking deadlines.

For ten years of working with the world's largest companies, we have achieved a 40% cost reduction in our projects using these 5 principles. Further pure advertising, but I will translate it too. If you want to know more, come to our website www.elementool.com

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