4 Tips for Avoiding IT Project Waste

2. Have a plan. Vendor proposals are full of boilerplates — simple task schedules and bar graphs. The real plans for a complex systems implementation require all details to be thought out, agreed upon and then scheduled. A mistake many companies make is not updating the plan weekly; they may use it to get started, but then don’t update it often enough. Also, plans often don’t take dependencies into account. Everybody involved continually is surprised because the major subtasks aren’t in sync with each other.