Project Management Case Study

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Among the common reasons why projects fail, an important one is the fact that too many managers keep focusing on Level 1: Project management success - where the priority is to deliver and document the management’s efficiency and good performance but ignoring the real objectives, the stakeholder needs, the quality of the outcomes or the benefits.
In some other cases it is the total inability of some managers to relate to people that lead the project to a certain failure, by ignoring stakeholders and/or members of the team’s needs and expectations.
Also to be taken into consideration, are the result of reports from different sources (Gartner, Economist Intelligence Unit, KPMG, PWC, McKinsey Report, IBM) that reveals that many projects, …show more content…

2014) strategies are created at three broad levels: aspirational, guidance and operational strategies. The first and second ones can be easily accessed through the organisation’s knowledge management repository.
A brief investigation to try to find the action plan that should execute the organisation’s strategy lead me to a dead end. No evidences of the processes that will transform that vision into policies, procedures and actions is easily found. And, without understanding it as a whole, people struggle to accept it or even to understand it.
Investigating if the root cause to the problem is directly connected to a bad strategy or it’s bad execution would be a huge challenge at this point. Instead it would be better to focus on finding an alternative, a shorter path to start trying to make the difference, not to the Organisational Strategies but a small group of people, in a small project related to a reduced and specific group of stakeholders.
The PRUB model proposed by Driver (Driver, P 2014) provides a good alternative. If applied in small doses, starting as an experiment and using just some SubStrategies in a controlled environment, it could demonstrate its value and efficiency producing tangible results and evidencing that a better way of approaching projects and leading them to succeed, actually

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