Project Failures and Successes

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To become a project manager it is necessary to understand why projects fail, as well as why they succeed. The paper starts by examining a well-documented project failure; the attempt to computerize the dispatch systems of the London Ambulance Service (LAS), a project which was totally abandoned only nine days after it was implement it. The events and influences which resulted in the failure all discussed. Following the examination of a project failure, a personal project success is examined; the organizing of a conference. Presents an outline for planning a social event, looking at what needs to be done and creating a WBS. Ten sources are cited in the bibliography this ten page paper.