I was reading an article about why projects fail and found interesting points and the following list has been inspired by actual mistakes encountered in real-world systems projects.
- Don’t use a specific methodology because coding is all that is really important.
- Create the project plan by working backwards from a drop-dead system completion date.
- Don’t bother with a data model. Just build whatever tables you need.
- Use a Technical Lead that has never built a similar system. Hiring such talent is too expensive.
- Hire forty developers to make the coding go faster.
- Selecting wrong tools and technologies for development
- Three months before the system goes live, assign one junior developer to handle the data migration.
- Skip the testing phase because the project is way behind schedule.
- Change the system to support critical new requirements discovered during final development.
- Buy a commercial, off-the-shelf package and customize it… a lot.
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