“Why Projects Fail:  The Effects of Ignoring Obvious Management Principles”  by Michael W. Hughes, P.E.   Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

I’ve done a lot of project and program work and I wrote this article in April 1986 because I noticed that most projects fail for simple reasons.  It appeared in Industrial Engineering, Volume 18, No. 4.

ABSTRACT

The author discusses how ignoring basic, obvious principles of management is often behind the failure of a project management effort.

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Note:  This wasn’t posted in 1986 to wordpress,  I just overwrote the date so it would post in chronological order.