Project management

PROJECT
MANAGEMENT

INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................1
Background..................................................................................................................................1
Critical discussion on the reason for failure................................................................................2
Prince2 Project Methodology......................................................................................................3
Project Management Tools and techniques.................................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Project management is the best way individual manages and organize resources that is
essential to complete the project or specific task. In simple term, it is the practice of executing,
closing, initiating and planning work of group of people to achieve goals and meet particular
success criteria at desirable time (Zahid and et.al., 2018). Project management is very essential
because it helps to assure there rigor in making projects appropriately so that companies fit well
within broader context of their consumer strategic frameworks. The current report is based on
NHS, it stands for national health service, it refers to national authority funded health and
medical care services that everyone living in United Kingdom used without taking permission
and being asked to pay total cost of medical services.
This study explains the brief background of case related to the failure of IT project in
context of NHS (Meredith, Mantel Jr and Shafer, 2017). Furthermore, it justifies the reasons for
failure and determine the significant factors. It also clarifies the relevant project management
techniques as well as tools that would be applied to consider shortcoming identified.
MAIN BODY
Background
The National Program for information technology in the National Health Services is considered
to be one of the largest public sector information technology program who ever attempted in UK.
The abandoned NHS information technology system has costed around £ 10 billion (Case Study
1: The £10 Billion IT Disaster at the NHS, 2019). It is considered to be one of the world’s largest
civilian comp. system. This computer system is considered to be one of the most expensive and
worst contracting fiascos in relation to the public sector. The final contract of the project is likely
to cost £ 2.2billion around the department of the health. Failed data system of the NHS has
compromised communication between GP’s and hospitals which will cost around £7 million to
fix the particular problem. The key culprit of this issue is Lorenzo who is referred to be as the
record management software platform. This helps patients to effectively record and review
individually and is very beneficial in o/s actions to be discovered. The trust of the NHS will take
the lead to effectively get everything sorted which mainly comprise of informing every
individual patients and GP’s. NHS information technology system which is considered to be one
of the worst fiascos ever (Case Study 1: The £10 Billion IT Disaster at the NHS, 2019).
Taxpayers tends to face rising multibillion pound bill which leads to failed government
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information technology project. This ill-fated project was launched in the year 2002, which tends
to aim at revolutionizing the way management in the health wants to change the way technology
is used in NHS. This helps in paving digital scanning, electronic records and integrated
information technology system across community care and hospitals. Failure to recognize the
longer project task and also risk of big information technology project. This project resulted in
lack of clear training and leadership. It also lead to lack privacy issues and lack of management
skills. It also lead to emphasize on price of over quality which in turn has resulted in lack of IT
project failure. This tends to state that inevitable setbacks tends to pursue an ambitious program
which in turn resulted in wide system failure. In order to resolve the IT issue the management of
the NHS must focus on emphasizing to understand the problems. There was a huge gap in the
deliverability and the laudability of the project. It is very difficult for the management to
translate the project into the reality (Six reasons why the NHS National Programme For IT failed,
2019). National Program for information technology model tends to focus on drastic cut in the
time scales and also helps in balancing the risk and reward. Poor business planning and poor
strategy are considered to be the major reason for project failure. National Program for
information technology led to more hustle and less speed which in turn resulted in project failure.
Multi-sourcing, accountability and poor contracting process are one of the key reason for
National Program for information technology project failure.
Critical discussion on the reason for failure
The major reasons for the failure of the entire project can be categorised into five major points or
reasons:
 Motives: Rather than implementing a bottom-up approach, NPfIT was entirely and
excellently focused on the top-down approach and this was the biggest cause of failure.
Rather than inviting in the ides and suggestions of people who were actually going to work
on the project, just a handful of cabinet decided what was to be done and implemented it
without really testing it.
 More Haste and Lesser Speed: The speed with which NPfIT was initially implemented was
praiseworthy but the speed soon turned into haste and rush and this was another major cause
of failure where the contracts were being entered into without nay adequate testing and
deliberation and work was being completed just for the sake of completing it (Bourne,
2016).
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