Projects need owners not sponsors

Get the right names on IT Project Title Deeds

IT people can be difficult to understand at the best of times, especially when describing our beloved technology. But it’s even more confusing for everyone when we deliberately avoid using plain language for non-technical aspects of project management.

For example we still persist with the inconvenient conspiracy that allows IT projects to have highly visible ‘Sponsors’ but invisible or READ MORE

misalignment of business and personal benefit

incentives by opensourceway on flickr

How often do you see a project proposal that makes provision for staff incentives to achieve the project objectives? I’ll bet such a thing is a rare beast indeed, if not extinct. But this might be a substantive cause of project failure and disappointment.

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