http://www.linuxkungfu.org/images/fun/geek/project.jpg
i found this pic of coincident; and it really tells u how an IT project being carried out most of the time;
and all these pitfalls result in communication gap and knowledge gap; so an perfect IT project with highly customizations is rarely completed successfully; but the standardized IT projects without these problems have a high rations to achieve;
most IT projects like ERP/CRM/MRP etc are established by stuff described in the picture, surely the situation varied from project to project, company to company; usually the key roles are sales, consultant, PM, SA, programmer, and definitely customers;
there are also some pitfalls during the project's initiation period, especially the customer has it's own IT Dep. Usually the IT Dep. of customer is involved in the bidding and evaluation events; but usually the end user is not IT Dep.. Then problems will float up during the implementation; b'coz of the communication/knowledge gap, no one will know how the whole system behaves until it's first deployed; the end user suddenly found the system with many limitation that beyond his acceptability;
then the project may come to a termination; (sure with other influences and force);
as the communication pipeline is not short, the situation described here is just one of the probability;
I'll tell some more if I'm still evaluating my career path;
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