Join Robert Griffiths, Partner at Mishcon de Reya in the Technology Disputes Team, and Sena Gbedemah, Managing Director at Secretariat, as they consider the key issues in delayed IT projects and give their top tips for getting a delayed project back on-track.
Businesses are increasingly turning to software solutions to promote efficiencies and drive profits within the business, but software implementations are often large and complex. On every software project the key risks are defects, delay and cost overruns.
In our latest Disputes Nightmare Scenario flash digital session, we will look at delay. Delays can creep up unexpectedly and snowball fast to become a business critical issue.
This session will focus on :
- The steps that you should urgently take in the short term after you realise a project is going awry;
- The practical steps that you can take in the medium term to get the project back on track; and
- The steps that you can take to minimise the risk and impact of future delays, and learn lessons for future projects.
- The session will also focus on the key causes of delay and steps that you can take to avoid them, including:
- difficulties integrating with or migrating from legacy systems
- a potential mismatch in skills and experience between the software providers and integrators and their customers
- uncovering additional complexity or new requirements as the project progresses meaning that the project has deviated significantly from its original scope/ objectives
- the initial estimates for time, cost, or resources being found to be unrealistic or incorrect