Defeat the 10 Deadliest
IT Project Killers
Series: Mission (IM)possible — IT Project Edition
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Protect Your Career with Project Management and Leadership
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“In 20+ years of recovering failing IT projects, I have never once traced the root cause back to the technology.
This book documents what I found instead — and what to do about it.”
— Dr. Martin Moss
Who It’s For…
This Book Is for You If…
You are managing an IT project right now
Something feels off but you cannot name exactly what it is. This book gives the patterns a name and a solution — and most project managers recognise at least two or three Killers in their current project before they finish Chapter 2.
You have been through a project that failed
You want to understand what actually happened — not the official post-mortem version. The 10 IT Project Killers will feel very familiar. The difference is that this time, you will know what to call them and what to do about them.
You want to prevent the next one
Before it starts. Before it builds. Before it becomes the kind of crisis that follows a career. The early warning signs are in this book. So is the framework for acting on them before it is too late.
Inside the Book
What the Book Covers
Why IT Projects Fail
Welcome to the IT project jungle. Why projects fail shockingly often — and why it is never about the technology. The invisible saboteurs nobody talks about. The shocking truth about success rates. And why standard methods — Agile, Waterfall, Hybrid — are necessary but not sufficient on their own.
The 10 Deadliest IT Project Killers
The heart of the book. Every Killer examined in full: what it is, why it forms, how to recognise the symptoms early, how to decode the root cause, and exactly how to stop it. All 10, ranked by danger level — from The Puppet through to Uninspiring, the most destructive Killer of all.
The Success Formula for IT Projects
How the Killers interact and reinforce each other. The success recipe for management. How to build the kind of resilience that makes project failure genuinely difficult. And what willingness to change — the factor most project managers underestimate — actually looks like in practice.
Know Your Enemy — All 10 IT Project Killers
Ranked by danger level. Every one documented, named, and solved in the book.
Dr. Martin Moss is an IT project crisis prevention expert with 20+ years of hands-on recovery experience and a PhD in project management and organisational behaviour.
This book is the foundation of the SPARK Method™ — the framework built from two decades of being called into failing projects across industries and countries.
From €12.99. Everything You Need to See the Killers Coming.
The book. Every Killer. Every warning sign. Every solution. In one place.