Our last post (6 Key Factors of Failure Projects) initiated a series of articles on the most common key factors for failure in project management and how to avoid them to be successful.

Let’s start with the last of those mistakes listed (6. Giving the team a minor role in the project) taking advantage of the importance of one of the most important news of recent days: the victory on Sunday 11 July of the Spanish Team in Football World Cup 2010 held in South Africa. Congratulations!

Well, what has this to do with project management? A lot, you’ll see. A football team is not very different from any other group of people working together to achieve a common goal.

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