1. In what ways can a project fail?

2. Why is the evaluation of a project’s success or failure somewhat subjective?

3. What are the benefits of a project postmortem? Why would a project not have a 

4. Assume you are a member of a project team working on a project with a six-month timeline. The materials your team needs to complete their first set of tasks will arrive three days later than their promised delivery date. The delay has a 10 percent chance of delaying completion of the project. You know that no one will tell the project manager of the delayed delivery because it is the first month of the project so it does not seem important enough to report. Would you inform the project manager of the delay? Explain your decision. Now assume you did not report the delay and such delays happened in each month afterward. What would you do and when? In your opinion, should the entire team present these problems? Explain your decisions.

5. What are three best practices to keep projects on track?

6. What are red flags indicating the project is likely to be a failure?

7. Referring to your answers in Questions 5 and 6, which of those best practices and red flags were ignored in the DIA automated luggage-handling project?

8. Referring to your answer in Question 7, why do you think each best practice and red flag were ignored?

9. In your opinion, who are the ones responsible for the failure?