My mother went to a psychic yesterday and apparently, sometime this year, I get an job offer from an overseas mining company that is so staggeringly good, the family and I pack up and head overseas for around two years.
The only thing is, the psychic didn’t tell my mother which company it is and where exactly we are going. Damn – I am picky when it comes to temporary adopted countries – there had better be a squash court or there will be hell to pay!.
Anyhow, since I have my existing evil plans for world domination, if said mining company can kindly contact me with their incredible offer as soon as possible, that would be much appreciated 🙂
Thanks for your time,
Paul
Hey there.
Welcome to Part 2 of a series that examines why SharePoint projects fail. If you have come straight from Part 1, you probably still have a hang over and would most likely not want to see tequila ever again! But if you missed the first article, there is a drinking game to be played first 🙂 .
Now as it happens, we haven’t even gotten to SharePoint yet. That’s because to examine why SharePoint projects fail, one has to examine why “projects” fail. Part 1 introduced the work of Horst Rittel and the term ‘Wicked Problem’. His work was not related to IT problems per se, but most of the ten characteristics he described 35 years ago are applicable to IT projects. Although subsequent academic works have refined (and in some cases criticised) his work, it still stands up pretty well in my opinion.
When you examine the various survey based studies undertaken on the success rate of IT projects, bad projects have a significant root cause at the initiating and planning phases. My own personal experience pretty much corroborates the studies and in hindsight, it’s plain that the worst of them were wicked problems.
In this post, I am going to play the role of the “ghost of wicked problems past” (think Dickens: A Christmas Carol). I am going to take you on an exciting, magical journey back in time, to examine some of the early work on wicked problems, and show that in the 25-35 years since they were written, not a heck of the wisdom imparted has found its way to prominence 🙂
CleverWorkarounds tequila shot rating with a redbull thrown in (on account of the history lessons):
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