Examples of Lessons Learned
A few examples of lessons learned are:
- Clearly defined, understood, and agreed-to requirements are key for a successful project.
- The project team must fully understand the commitments before implementing the formal agreement.
- Timely involvement by IBM procurement is crucial.
- Understanding the customer's organization, and who the official and unofficial decision makers are, is key to project success.
- Executive management support for a project is key to project success.
- Provide a long lead time for resource procurement.
- Sponsor-supplied staff is not always the best or the most productive.
- Multiple project managers on a project can lead to problems unless the transition from one project manager to the next is carefully managed.
- Internal projects are as challenging as, or even more challenging than projects with external sponsors.
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