IDG Contributor Network: Notorious project failures -- Berlin airport: Why did it go wrong?

Projects are everywhere in our lives: personal projects, development projects, educational projects, business projects, capacity-building projects, infrastructure projects, innovation projects, technology projects, research and development projects. There have been zillions of projects in the past; there will be zillions of projects in the future. Basically, we got where we are now through projects.What is fascinating about all these projects is that they all share a set of common characteristic