● The contractor and client have no understanding of each others:
● Technology
● Culture
● Business plan
● Lack of coordination between people/various departments.
● Complaints of a lack of skills on the project team.
● Serious technology considerations have surfaced after the project began.
● People/ departments refuse to cooperate with each other or the project rescuer.
● Serious infrastructure considerations have surfaced after the project began.
● Hidden costs have surfaced after the project started, possibly taking project over budget.
● Only a few key people are keeping the project afloat.
● Serious internal team clashes.
● Project team does not trust the project manager/senior management.
● Project team is unfamiliar with the:
● Customer’s intended use of the product or service
● Product
● Technology/theory of operation
● Testing/evaluation process
● Support requirements
● Language (either technical/ geographic/ ethnic or people)
● Significant production/ design delays.
● Large gap exists between the amount of work planned and actually completed.
● Customers expectations have not been/are not being effectively managed.
● Project team is too large to foster effective networking.
● Internal conflicts within the customer’s organization are adversely affecting project’s direction.
● Slow customer approval/decision making.
● Funding was cut after the project was launched without a change in the project’s scope.
● Dissenters are silenced.
● No project plan exists.
● No back-up project plan exists.
● All actions are being taken in response to crises which regularly occur.
● Deliverable dates are being slipped or missed.
● Too many political games are being played.
● Team is executing actions before the specifications are finalized.
● Management no longer asks when project will end, just if it will end.
● Executives distrust the project’s reporting system.
● Executives no longer even discuss the project.
● Key executives have widely different performance numbers for the same project for the same time period.
● No humor or laughter within the project team.
● Team members no longer discuss thrills or problems as they once did.
● Project team members frequently lose their tempers or make vitriolic responses.
● No visible progress is being made on the project.
● Team member illness, lateness, turnover is increasing.
● No one performed a feasibility study.