{"id":76,"date":"2008-10-14T13:55:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-14T18:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/?p=76"},"modified":"2008-10-14T13:55:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-14T18:55:00","slug":"the-tech-disaster-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/2008\/10\/the-tech-disaster-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tech Disaster Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I enjoyed reading Jake Widman&#8217;s recent article about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cio.com\/article\/453692\/The_Tech_Disaster_Awards_What_You_Can_Learn_from_IT_s_Biggest_Project_Failures_?page=1\" target=\"_blank\">The Tech Disaster Awards: What You Can Learn from ITs Biggest Project Failures<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s just a relief that none of the listed belong to me or any of my clients!<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, the reason I invite you to read it is that even the big failures have lessons that can be drawn from them. Do we really need to be reminded that it&#8217;s important to know what we&#8217;re building before we start cutting code?<\/p>\n<p>Apparently so.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"javascript:var NLpage='http:\/\/www.i-leadonline.com\/LipStickJuke.htm';NLprops='width=720,height=480,dependent=yes,toolbar=no,menubar=no,location=no,scrollbars=no,resizable=no';nw=window.open(NLpage,'',NLprops );nw.focus();\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Click here to view some sample clips\" hspace=\"8\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.i-leadonline.com\/images\/LipstickClipsThumbnail.jpg?w=736\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Enjoy the article. As a next step, here&#8217;s a suggestion: <a href=\"javascript:var NLpage='http:\/\/www.i-leadonline.com\/LipStickJuke.htm';NLprops='width=720,height=480,dependent=yes,toolbar=no,menubar=no,location=no,scrollbars=no,resizable=no';nw=window.open(NLpage,'',NLprops );nw.focus();\">Click here<\/a> (or on the image to the right) to view a related clip from our popular <a href=\"http:\/\/www.i-leadonline.com\/lipstick-on-a-pig-keynote.asp\">Lipstick on a Pig keynote<\/a>. Watch for the clip entitled <em>Project Success and Failure<\/em>. It has some valuable insights to help you and your team understand what leads to project failure (and how to better set your project up for success).<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s to no Ig Nobel awards in your future!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I enjoyed reading Jake Widman&#8217;s recent article about The Tech Disaster Awards: What You Can Learn from ITs Biggest Project Failures. Maybe it&#8217;s just a relief that none of the listed belong to me or any of my clients! Regardless, the reason I invite you to read it is that even the big failures have&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/2008\/10\/the-tech-disaster-awards\/#more-76\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21,51,40,8,23],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p488Wj-1e","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}