Project Management for IT Professionals

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PROJECT MANAGEMENT FOR IT PROFESSIONALS
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Introduction
Project management is very important for the IT professionals because it helps the IT
professionals to provide an outstanding design of their projects. It provides strategic
alignment to the IT projects of a company (Nulden & Scheepers 2020). It also helps a
company to provide clear direction and objectives regarding their IT projects. But there are
some problems faced by IT professionals while conducting the project management activity.
This essay focuses on the some common causes for IT project failure (Larsson &
Larsson 2020). In this essay, four common strategies are highlighted, with the help of which
the failure can be avoided. This essay also discussed regarding the two examples of IT project
failures.
Reasons of IT failure
There are many reasons for IT project failure. These are as follows:
 Lack of interest of the management
Sometimes, management of a company is not able to understand some
IT related matters and they leave the entire project to the IT teams only. It
highlights that, management is not at all interested in the IT projects (Razi et
al. 2020). As a result of that IT team gets more freedom to take decisions. It
can lead to a big problem for the company because technical team does not
have any idea regarding the business objectives of the company.
 Cost reduction strategies
All companies want to save the money when it is related to the
expenditure of the company (Zhu et al. 2020). If a company implements this
strategy in their IT projects then it may hamper their IT projects badly.

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Allocation of small and insufficient funds can lead to the procurement of less
skilled resources. Unfunded projects can lead to missing features or may have
some quality issues. It can lead to a great loss for the company.
 Improper planning
Many IT projects are initiated without any appropriate planning of the
scope and result of the project (Tsoy & Staples 2020). If the goals are not clear
then any project can be failed. Everything is managed in haphazard manner.
Successful IT project does not mean the delivery of the ultimate software
product. It actually means the desired result of the IT projects within the
assigned deadline and allocated funds. Improper planning may leads to
following issues in an IT project.
 Unclear scope and objective
 Incorrect time estimates
 Bad performance
 Inefficient use of resources
 Wrong estimation of expenditure
 Choice of technology
If the IT team selects efficient technology for doing their IT projects
then it protects the projects from technical failure. If the team selects incorrect
technologies then it will lead to a severe failure of the projects. Some project
managers select a programming language and a development tool because of
the professional preferences (Tang 2020). But other project managers select
the trendy and emerging technologies for software development. A project
may fail if the project manager selects programming language, operating