Poor Project Management

The Star today (page N4) reported that the Prime Minister expressed disappointment over the state of affairs relating to planning,monitoring and implemention of projects by some government agencies.

Below ,let me share the results of the survey (of 1905 managers at US firms across the industries) of top reasons for poor project management. This may shed some light on why we are having some problems in our country:

84%-When serving on a project team,employees are not relieved of their routine responsibilities.
80%-Employees donot receive training project management methodology before serving on project team.
69%-Project teams are not given enough resources to accomplish their goals.
62%-Project teams throughout the organisations fail to follow a standard methodology for defining,planning and implementing projects.
55%-The right people are not selected to lead or serve on project teams.
46%-project teams are not given clear,attainable goals.

Source:Quality Progress Magazine,Guttman Development Strategies and Kepner-Tregoe Inc.

Comments

[Mas]

pak adib,

i think in malaysia, that 55% of not having the right people should be 84%. i'm sorry to say sesungguhnyer in malaysia bribery still tops everything..good example is..macamaner a nation who are so crazy over football are at no 127 at FIFA ranking behind all the other 3rd world country yg sememangnyer dun have our first class facilities...

[Maverick SM]

Pak Adib,

Do you know what it means by "the right people in the project"?

You can have highly qualified people and PMPs and those Rhetorical Prophets where you often hear them blarring out loud.

If the project had been design to react in a particular way applying a particular system, it should produce that particular result - that it, most of the time, what Pak Lah mourns.

Project success hinges on the system, and only a systemic approach to project planning, implementation and control will give the right result- success!

Planning must derived control and execution must be guided by a knowledge system that consistently guide and dictate actions. The control mechanism is basically to re-steer the ship in event it sways from it's planned line. Monitoring system must be effective and efficient to tell the truth - that the project is travelling offline or out of planned-course.

The people in the project team need not only skills and knowledge, they need a leader who is adequately competent to captain the ship; otherwise, it will end up like the Titanic ship.

And project don't need so many people, which are what was presumed. Most of them in the team talk about the project and keep talking while the doers are strapped.

[Gukita]

AbeDib,
I do not see a 100% in the statistic. If I may, the 100% is ATTITUDE. Without proper attitude all planning, controls, recovery plans, further control cycle and all the qualifications in the world will not guarantee success. And ATTITUDE must be present NOT ONLY in the Project Team buat also the Stakeholders, customers, local agencies and authorities and the most diabolical of all; politicians!!!!