ABSTRACT
A good project does not always make the project team look good. There are superbly run projects which came out bang on time and bang on budget but at the end of which the team got fired. There are terrible jobs where the thing finished years late, costing twice as much as the worst estimate, and yet the project manager was promoted out of sight. There are projects on which companies have lost lots of money but everyone thought that the company got off lightly. There are projects which were hugely profitable but which everyone thought were a complete mess. There are projects where devoted and capable people fight against enormous odds and achieve completely the wrong objective. There are projects where a team of clever people watch with their mouths wide open while some senior bureaucrat in a pin stripe suit gets all the credit.
