Funny? Not really.

It’s a funny world. Every year more research shows that around 15% of projects fail to deliver anything, only 33% of projects deliver on time and budget and only a frightening 5% of projects deliver the full outcomes and benefits expected. Yet we continue to use the same old approaches to project delivery that we always have - and continue to fail.

The situation is becoming so bad that business executives are accepting poor results as “all that can be expected”. But this doesn’t have to be the case.

What has happened over the years is that the demands on projects have become greater and more complex as we try to do more. Our old approaches failed to cope, but rather than find another way, we’ve incrementally added and adapted them until they may be part of the problem.

We’ve seen ‘rapid application design’, ‘joint application design’ and no application design (as ‘adapt your business to the application’).

We’ve seen business cases become ever more complex and sophisticated in their financial modelling without any corresponding benefits measurement process to make this worthwhile.

Now we’re seeing ‘project management’ as the panacea. ‘Better’ project managers will deliver ‘better’ project outcomes. Not so. Project management’s impact on project success is small compared to the impact of the project-delivery processes.

You can either fix it or perpetuate it. We decided to fix it.

The result is more projects and more value delivered in less time and for less cost.