Project Delays

How can you know an outsource company will deliver your project on time? What causes project delays? Let’s consider the most common causes for delays during the collaboration with a software development company.

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要解決專案延遲，就不能只認為是「特定人」的問題，而是要從系統去分析 — 這是Evonne跟你一起PM下午茶的第29天，今天要討論的主題是： 為什麼台鐵會誤點，高鐵不會？談專案延遲的原因 這個問題屬於商業思維學院 產品經理系列課程的 #專案管理 #PM基本功 #產品經理工作術問題 中秋連假我們去宜蘭玩，為了避免塞車，我們用火車行動，不免俗（？）地我們又遇到了火車誤點，於是我跟老公討論起了誤點的原因，正好看到新聞也報導了網友討論的誤點原因。 這些原因和我們討論的有些一樣，有些不同，我們認為這些原因，其實跟一個專案會delay的原因本質上非常類似，也是明年商業思維學院會帶大家討論的專案管理問題，因此這邊先跟大家分享。 首先我要說，我看到有一種說法：「台灣人素質低，總是要最後一刻上車」，或是「台灣就太有人情味，會特別等來不及的旅客」，你同意嗎？ 我完全不認為是這種原因，如果是這樣，為什麼高鐵就不會延遲呢？而且之前我去出差時，日本的鐵路也是常常延遲，日本人不是有名的守時嗎？我認為怪罪到「特定人」身上，其實不太合理，也無法解決問題，難道專案延遲，把人換掉就有用嗎？

There are multiple reasons why there may be project delay. It is important to understand why your project may be delayed before you can start to deal effectively with the delays to avoid them. Although you may realize the project delay when you are unable to meet your deadline, delays…

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