Do we have the courage to tell it how it is?

Last night I was at an APM event in Huddersfield, in which my colleague Richard Schofeild presented the reasons for project failure in an interesting and insightful way. A key point was about having those crucial conversations in which we tell team members and sponsors the truth about issues we face or risks we (and they) are running. All too often we keep the bad news to ourselves for fear of confrontation or upsetting bosses or colleauges but all we are really doing is to amplify the problem as it doesn't go away for acting like an ostrich! I wonder what the outcomes of some of the famous failures in traditional project terms would have been for open and honest conversations once the Project Manager had the gut feeeling that things were going wrong? For help and advice on this topic visit our website at http://cogenic.co.uk/advisory or read our White Papers at http://www.cogenic.co.uk/contactus