{"id":3575,"date":"2022-02-03T01:53:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T06:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=3575"},"modified":"2022-01-10T08:02:53","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T13:02:53","slug":"why-fill-in-the-blank-projects-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2022\/02\/why-fill-in-the-blank-projects-fail\/","title":{"rendered":"Why fill-in-the-blank Projects Fail"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Special projects fail because they aren&#8217;t that special. We pretend or wish them to be so we can forego proven techniques and hard-learned lessons.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We know why fill-in-the-blank projects fail. Let&#8217;s fill in the blank:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Artificial Intelligence <\/li><li>Machine Learning<\/li><li>big data <\/li><li>data lake<\/li><li>non-profit<\/li><li>whatever<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of course these projects are different from the normal project. Every project is different. And given that, what is a &#8220;normal&#8221; project? I guess we could average this and that and find a norm and standard deviation and such.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These special projects fail because they aren&#8217;t that special. They are more like the normal project than they are different from it. There are known ways to project success and there are known ways to project failure. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Telling myself that, &#8220;This is a special project, not like others so I don&#8217;t have to stick with the known fundamentals and avoid the known failure modes&#8221; is wishful thinking. Sometimes wishes come true. More often, however, they don&#8217;t. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This isn&#8217;t that special. Sorry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Special projects fail because they aren&#8217;t that special. We pretend or wish them to be so we can forego proven techniques and hard-learned lessons. We know why fill-in-the-blank projects fail. Let&#8217;s fill in the blank: Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning big data data lake non-profit whatever Of course these projects are different from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,259,9,42,85],"tags":[171,260,132,164,202],"class_list":["post-3575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adapting","category-failure","category-management","category-process","category-success","tag-adapting","tag-failure","tag-management","tag-process","tag-success"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3576,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3575\/revisions\/3576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}