Times of change
The market environment is becoming increasingly dynamic and production and development cycles are getting shorter and shorter. Many organizations are feeling the pressure to change.
Often the cause lies in the structure of the organization, deadlocked structures and lengthy processes.
It's not that the big players on the market are toppling the smaller ones. Rather, more and more agile companies are managing to overtake the large and immobile ships.
Many project teams lack direction and vision for what they are doing. Instead, detailed project plans are created and adapted again and again - without generating added value.
The beginning of the end
Many companies have a confusing number of launched projects. Organizations initiate these when they are faced with a change or task that lies outside their operational business.
There are usually certain stakeholders in the company who are particularly keen to drive the project forward. A project is therefore set up and scheduled with optimistic assumptions. The scope and extent of the project and the expected resources required are defined in advance.
Most project members are highly motivated and enthusiastic at the start of the project. The teams form and get to work. And then, somehow and somewhere along the way, things take a different direction. Deadlines cannot be met. The results do not meet the expectations of those involved.
The project fails in the eyes of the management level because it does not achieve the goal or does not deliver what was required within the resources, budget and time.

Do you want to save your organization from the beginning of the end? Are you looking for ways to get the chaos under control? Focus and structure are the success factors for your project.
"Those who plan are better than those who don't. Even if they rarely stick to their plan -
Winston Churchill"
Reasons for the failure of projects
Goals
Unclear goals: If project work begins without a clear project goal, it is guaranteed to fail. If the organization does not know what is to be achieved, neither success nor failure can be measured.
Resource planning
Lack of resource planning: Organizations create detailed schedules with milestones, topics and interfaces. But with all this project planning, the crucial question is often forgotten: Who is actually doing the work? Who really implements the project? If there is no manpower available, the project plan written down on paper drags on forever. As we all know, paper is patient.
Tools
Lack of project management tools: If the project and its tasks and deliverables are not transparent, failure to achieve this goal is inevitable.
It is important to set up a project management system that creates transparency , not just for the project manager, but for all team members. This includes task status, clear communication and good document management.
Communication
Lack of communication: Although everyone knows it, it is so often taken lightly: Communication in project management is key. The tools the team uses to communicate should be explained and implemented from the beginning of the project.
Project scope
The scope of a project is constantly growing: starting with a simple customer request to add something here, a good idea from a colleague to change something there - the scope of a project grows quickly.
This happens for three reasons:
Firstly, if the parameters of the project were not clearly defined. Secondly, when internal pressure is exerted on the teams. Thirdly, when the team starts to take on tasks from outside - for example from the customer - that were not part of the original project scope.
Expectations
Excessive optimism within the team or unrealistic stakeholder expectations can jeopardize any project.
The project management must communicate a clear vision and a clear picture of what the team can achieve and in what time frame - all team members and stakeholders