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Year after year, the Project Management Institute and The Standish Group have consistently reported the massive failure rates of company projects. This year, the chance of success is 30%. That’s a total or partial failure rate of 70%. What’s even more surprising is that the numbers held fairly steady at 68% failure for about 10 years, then ramped up to 71% in 2015³ and then settled at 70% in 2018. We have more tools at our fingertips than ever before, but things continue to get worse instead of better.

“Nothing is wrong here. Especially near the nuclear reactor.”

~Gilda Radner as Roseanne Roseannadanna, Saturday Night Live⁹⁹

 •17% of IT initiatives go so badly they can threaten the very existence of the company.”4

 •73% of those surveyed admit their ventures are always or usually doomed from the start.5

 •Failed IT projects cost the US economy about $50-150 billion annually.6

 •Organizations waste $109 million for every US $1 billion invested.7

Project success rates went from 16% in 1994 to 28% in 2000, up to 32% by 2013, back to 29% in 2016⁸ and up to 30% in 2018.⁹

Jaws¹⁰

Starring Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, and Richard Dreyfuss Zanuck/Brown Productions (1975)

During a hot summer in a small beach community, the new Sheriff Martin Brody (Roy Scheider) discovers a shark attack victim on the beach. He wants to close the beaches, but local businessmen resist. Brody backs down, and a young boy falls victim to the predator. When the grieving mother announces a bounty on the shark, amateur shark hunters and fisherman swarm into town, hoping to land the reward.

The beaches remain open, and the death toll rises.

At a town meeting, an experienced shark hunter named Capt. Quint (Robert Shaw) offers to hunt down the shark for an exorbitant price. Soon Quint, Brody, and marine biologist Matt Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss) are at sea, hunting the Great White Shark. As Brody succinctly surmises after their first encounter with the giant creature, they’re going to need a bigger boat.¹¹

In the classic Steven Spielberg movie, Jaws, a ravenous Great White Shark gets a taste for tourists in a small beach town. With the death toll rising rapidly, Sheriff Brody becomes an operations executive with one clear goal—to take out the shark. Brody assembles a team of operators—a marine biologist named Matt Hooper and an eccentric boat captain named Quint.

If Brody were a typical blue-pill operator, the shark would have a 70% chance of winning. Our question: Why?

Why does the average Operations Executive shrug off these horrific stats when their own performance ratings are also in question?

Why do talented, capable Project Management professionals and even Project Management Organizations (PMOs) fail so often?

“Why isn’t someone asking the right questions and coming up with better answers?”

Why isn’t someone asking the right questions and coming up with better answers?