(Can occur at any point in the project’s life cycle)

THERE ARE ALWAYS SITUATIONS IN WHICH PROJECTS MUST BE STOPPED. BELOW ARE SEVERAL REASONS FOR STOPPING:

• Final achievement of the objectives.
• Project cannot impact on the bottom line (either make or save the firm $).
• Poor initial planning and market prognosis.
• A better alternative is found.
• A change in the company’s interest and strategy/project conflicts with corporate objectives/clash of corporate egos.
• Inability to find a qualified partner/ specialists.
• Allocated time is exceeded.
• Budgeted costs/work hours are exceeded.
• Key people leave the organizations.
• Personal whims of management.
• Problems too complex for the resources available.
• Technical risks too high.
• Project becomes incompatible with corporate strategy.
• Original project purpose changed or outlived.
• Change in customer requirements.
• Loss of project champions.
• Loss of funding – money ran out/experiencing drastic budget cuts/project is seriously under funded.
• Superior product delivered by competitor.
• Loss of design control.
• Loss of public support.
• Estimates to complete are no longer valid.
• Failure of project to achieve actual customer’s service/cost reduction at acceptable cost or if parties cannot reach agreement.
• Loss of resources (money/time/key personnel).
• When research results prove unfavorable.
• When unable to duplicate research results (after one or several attempts).
• When prototype testing fails too many times or late stage trials/prototype consistently fails to operate.
• Perceived benefits do not materialize.
• Final product/services does not work or does not work as the customer requires.
• Too few benefits remain for project to be attractive to customers.
• Systems are not compatible/don’t (haven’t and will not) integrate.
• he threat is withdrawn.
• Irreconcilable breakdown in contract negotiations.
• Users adamantly refuse to approve/use or abide by the project’s output.
• Final product/service is too complicated to use.
• Main customer is too slow to accept the changes required by the project.