Good Morning, I will be presenting on a topic not often discussed in IT project management, project cancellation, and as this is a symposium I feel it is an appropriate place to discuss such an original topic. There are many exciting topics in project management at the moment. Most involve fundamental changes, but may not follow through to realization due to problems of implementation - this topic shares that problem. However, this topic is action oriented and does try to appeal to the project manager's self interest.
Recognition can be a good thing and a bad thing.
Identification - there is still no concrete definition of project success so how do we identify when an IT project is failing. An Orderly Close Out - this is even more important with a failed IT project because your company has to maintain momentum in IT development to survive. There is anecdotal evidence. I'm sure that you have heard similar remarks on IT projects. The cancellation of projects before they reach their ultimate demise would seem to be obvious.