The Center for Project Management in San Ramon, California,examined 24 IT projects and compiled a list of ten dumb mistakes.The center then presented this list to 50 conference attendees andasked them to grade their organization on each mistake. The averagegrade was between a C+ and D. Here are the ten mistakes:

1. Mistaking every half-baked idea for a viable project.

2. Overlooking stakeholders, forgetting the champions, andignoring the nemesis.

3. Not assessing the project's complexity.

4. Not developing a comprehensive project charter.

5. Not developing a comprehensive project plan.

6. Not designing a functional project organization.

7. Accepting or developing unrealistic or unachievableestimates.

8. Accepting status reports that contain mostly noise and notenough signal.

9. Looking back and not ahead.

10. Not following a robust project process architecture.

Read the above list and find an example of a project for whichthis is the case. The project can be one that you have personalexperience

with or that you have read or heard about. Describe the exampleand state which of the mistakes was made with respect to theproject.

(Note that there may be more than one for a particular project.)If you choose a project in the news, provide a citation so thatyour classmates

can read more about it.