ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at different types of project review. It discusses common trade-offs that need to consider when setting up a review or assurance programme. The chapter then identifies three key challenges to running such a programme, the difficulty of running reviews themselves; the difficulty of getting people to act on their findings; and the difficulty of embedding a sustainable review process into an organization. The best known studies of project failure, at least in the information technology (IT) industry where it specialize are the Chaos Reports. Rigorously gathering survey data is expensive, so surveys often suffer from methodological weaknesses and selection biases. It examines some of the issues you may need to address as you persuade executives, managers and project teams to adopt reviews. They are intended to illustrate the range of types of review that people conduct, the sort of benefits they derive from these reviews, and the type of challenges they deal with as they execute them.
