Ten Ways to Improve Project Performance

INTRODUCTION It is a sad fact that despite all the formal methodologies, wider adoption of project management disciplines, and more powerful tools, such as World Wide Web technologies and project management software, most projects fail to complete according to the three elements of project management’s iron triangle: cost, schedule, and quality. The record gets even more dismal as a project moves into the high-technology arena. At first, the tendency is to throw one’s hands into the air and ask, “What is the use?” Such resignation, however, only maintains the status quo. Fortunately, there are ten ways to improve project performance if enterprises in general and project teams in particular implement them: