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Why aren’t you measuring your ROI?

As I noted in one of my previous posts, ROI (Return on Investment) is a potential measure of project success, but it is one that is rarely used.  On the surface that seems odd because almost every company requires some definition of the ROI for a project before approving it.  Some companies are very rigorous in their process, requiring formal business cases, and insisting on a 1 year or less payback on their investment.  So why is it that, once the project is over, very few companies seem to go back and check on whether or not they received the ROI that they were expecting?

Humor in Project Management

One evening when I was hanging out with a small group of project managers in Boston, we got talking about how PMs seem to get ‘beaten up’ by everyone.Since they are at the center of a project, they often have multiple parties pushing them in conflicting directions and feel pressure from every side.One of the PMs said, “yup, just like a piñata.”