The biggest mistake in IT crisis projects?

Hoping for too long that it will resolve itself.

I have seen projects that:
• where months late
• budgets have been massively overspent
• long considered a „problem project“

And still, things continued as before.

Why?

Because nobody wanted to make the unpleasant decisions.

In a specific case, we had to:
• completely restructure
• change roles and responsibilities
• deliberately stop parts of the project

That wasn't easy.

But necessary.

Result:
The project could be saved.

My experience:
The sooner you look honestly, the greater the chance of success.

Waiting, almost always makes it more expensive.

And rarely better.