About the roundtable participants When company fortunes take a turn for the worse, common culprits are a slowdown in sales, fluctuations in foreign currencies or difficulty integrating a merger. In a few high-profile cases in recent years, executives have also pointed their fingers at software systems. Perhaps the most notorious example is financially troubled Oxford Health Plans Inc., which blamed a billing system for the company's failure to collect millions in premiums and pay millions to doctors and hospitals.
Software can be an easy target.
To share those practices, InTelligence assembled a roundtable of six Compuware project managers, who represent nearly seven decades of experience managing IT projects successfully. The larger projects are most likely to run into trouble. They need project management expertise to create a sound infrastructure under them. I've seen a few large projects in the last few years where top management has made the decision to go real skinny on project management to try to save money. That has always led to problems at least-and sometimes failure.