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The 14 most common IT project management mistakes and ways to avoid them

You've identified that your IT project is in trouble. What are the best ways to save the situation?

Often, the difference between success and failure is spotting critical early warning signs that a project is in trouble. Here are a few ways to identify the symptoms

Farm Credit Services of America doesn't sound like an organization that courts controversy. The cooperative association makes loans to more than 66,000 farmers and cattle ranchers in the US Midwest so that they can buy cows and pigs and tractors and backhoes. Its main reason for existence - providing $US11 billion of operating capital and real estate financing to those who feed America - is as homey as the images of corn fields, gently rolling green pastures and rugged, resolute farmers that adorn its marketing materials

IT projects are usually judged successes or failures when they go live. But look back and you will see the real judgment comes later - and that requires a new set of value criteria.

It's time the IT industry started calling a spade a spade - especially when it's a bloody shovel!

Peter Clarke, head of Scotland Yard's anti-terrorist branch, told the BBC that the surveillance involved in foiling the plot to blow up trans-Atlantic planes had been "unprecedented".

Five years ago, almost half of AG Edwards's IT projects were late and over budget. Now it boasts an 88 percent project success rate. How did it do that? By galvanizing IT, reinventing its PMO, and relying on a standard framework to track projects and create accountability

Are IT departments too focused on governance?

High levels of application development outsourcing at all levels of government highlight an urgent need for enhanced requirements management capability, particularly where limited points of contact exist between client and the outsourced development team.

Wherein an imaginary dialogue between a CIO and a CFO identifies, analyzes and suggests strategies to resolve the long-standing divide between money and technology.