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In context
- Topic: Proyectos, PMO y Riesgos — Gestión de proyectos, oficinas de proyecto y riesgo del portafolio.
- Source: ProjectManager
- Published: 24/08/2026
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Why it matters
Projects rarely fail on the day they are declared failed. They fail months earlier, in a meeting where somebody saw the problem coming and calculated it was not in their interest to say so. Everything else — the slipping schedule, the stretching budget — is the visible consequence of that silence.
My filter is the quality of the status report. If every project is green, the reporting system is not working: in any real portfolio some initiatives are in trouble, and a healthy organisation surfaces them in time rather than discovering them at the closure committee.
What usually goes wrong
Where it usually breaks is the handover to operations. The project is declared finished when it is delivered, not when the receiving area can sustain it. Three months later the team has dissolved, nobody documented anything, and operations lives with something it does not understand and cannot change.
What to watch
- Which risks are identified, who owns each one, and when they were last reviewed.
- The size of the first useful delivery: the further out it is, the more it resembles a bet.
- How it was estimated and how close the same organisation's previous estimates turned out to be.
How I read this entry
If this landed on my desk, the first thing I would ask for is not percentage complete: it is the list of pending decisions with a name and a date. A percentage can be dressed up; a decision stuck for three weeks with an identified owner cannot be argued with, and it explains the delay far better.
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Living through this in your own team?
Open the chat and tell me how you're handling it. I'm interested in comparing notes.
