PARTHENON CONSULTANCY LTD

PROJECT MANAGEMENT SPECIALISTS

Why Projects Fail - The Bull View

The Bull Survey - 1998.

The findings of the Bull survey were that projects failed for the following reasons:

57%	Bad communication between relevant parties
39%	Lack of planning of scheduling resources and activities
35%	No quality control
34%	Milestones not being met
29%	Inadequate co-ordination of resources
26%	Costs getting out of hand
20%	Mismanagement of progress
17%	Overall poor management
13%	Supplier skills overstretched
12%	Supplier under resources
11%	Insufficient measurable outputs
4%	Supplier people not consistent