Engineering Project Management Non-Technical Success Factors

People on the Team Hate each other – RED Flag, the project did not get scoped carefully – RED flag, there’s no plan for sustainability of the projects ongoing needs, RED flag. You may have the greatest technical solution, but the bridge still falls down, the boiler blows up, the software fails, WHY? Because it’s not just about how smart you are or how wonderful or brilliant the solution is that you’ve come up with. NO, it’s still about people who have to have to implement it! If they don’t like you, if they did not get enough funding to complete the work properly, if no one maintains it the entire thing the inevitable loss is what you’ll be known for!. This episode is about keeping your eyes open for the non-technical success factors in your organization. I tell you about my big 3 red flags that I’ve seen wipe out some of the most brilliant and capable people and projects. You don’t have to learn everything the hard way! You may have spent your career thinking engineering success o