Last month I gave a presentation at the Nottingham and Derby branch of the British Computer Society about why projects fail – which, as regular readers will know, is a subject close to my heart. It was a pretty good evening: lots of people turned out, including some of the BCS Women group and some people who weren’t members at all, who thought I would be interesting enough to give up an evening for. I hope I met their expectations! I really enjoyed the event; even getting up the next morning before 6am to make my train to London wasn’t that bad. Bizarrely, first class travel was actually cheaper than second class – not sure how that works out – so I got a cooked breakfast on the train. But the next day the lack of sleep kicked in and I zonked out as soon as I got home.
If you weren’t able to attend but would like to see the presentation, you can download it here (355Kb .ppt file).
There’s a video in the presentation in which Deborah Hall explains five things you can do to steer projects along the path to success. You can watch the video below. It’s only 24 seconds long but it gave people a break from listening to me talk the whole evening.
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