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	Signs Your Project is Slowly Dying and How to Avoid

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9-25-2009 2:57 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/962c448f-7e37-4ec0-b19f-9f61edb8249a/AC156BDC-4D70-49A4-859C-8CAA27E217E3/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.qtask.com/public/blog/2009/08/27/signs-your-project-is-slowly-dying-and-how-to-avoid/" href="http://www.qtask.com/public/blog/2009/08/27/signs-your-project-is-slowly-dying-and-how-to-avoid/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.qtask.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.qtask.com/public/blog/2009/08/27/signs-your-project-is-slowly-dying-and-how-to-avoid/"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD colspan="2"><DIV id="post-341" class="post-341 post hentry category-projectmanagement category-taskmanagement category-tipsandtricks tag-project-management tag-solutions">
		 <H3><A class="blog-grey-link" rel="bookmark" href="http://www.qtask.com/public/blog/2009/08/27/signs-your-project-is-slowly-dying-and-how-to-avoid/">Signs Your Project is Slowly Dying and How to Avoid</A></H3></DIV></TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.qtask.com/public/blog/2009/08/27/signs-your-project-is-slowly-dying-and-how-to-avoid/"><P>There are a lot of warning signs, some specific to working with online employees or web-based projects, and learning to recognize them can save everyone involved a huge amount of trouble, time and money.  And as project manager, that’s your job.  Here we look at four danger signs, and how web-based task tools can help you defuse them:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.qtask.com/public/blog/2009/08/27/signs-your-project-is-slowly-dying-and-how-to-avoid/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.qtask.com/img/2AD213B1-2EF1-4612-9BDD-99DA9FAD61DF" alt="frogs-boiling" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.qtask.com/public/blog/2009/08/27/signs-your-project-is-slowly-dying-and-how-to-avoid/"><P>When someone’s trying to make things better and better, they either have great motivation or know what’s there isn’t nearly good enough.  If the upper echelons recommend some intelligent additions, great – that’s exactly how you improve.  But if they’re constantly <A target="_blank" href="http://www.interaction-design.org/encyclopedia/featuritis_and_creeping_featurism.html">demanding upgrades</A> which require major overhauls and (most alarmingly) not following up on requests for previous changes, it’s usually because they know that as things stand the project is a bust.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/AC156BDC-4D70-49A4-859C-8CAA27E217E3/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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