What do you do to improve project efficiency?  Gina Fedeli, Project Management Expert Panelist & President, GCF Consulting, just posted an article on our blog titled 'Four SMART Principles of Project Management'.  In her article Gina discusses four standard project management principles as a guideline for structuring milestones: make them specific, measurable, attainable/realistic, and timely.

She describes project planning gone wrong with the following example:

A dramatic example of project management gone awry was the response to 2011′s freak Northeast Halloween blizzard, which caused power outages lasting more than a week in the state of Connecticut. Public reports indicated that the local utility’s emergency response plan addressed downed lines for 100,000 customers, while eight times that number were affected. Project managers worsened the situation with an unrealistic forecast of when power would be restored. When they missed their own deadline, tempers frayed.

What examples can you think of when lack of planning or poor communication led to project failure?  What should you do to regroup when a project needs to get back on track?

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