Project Managers are working too hard to get such dismal results. Last year only 38% of all projects met original goals and business intent and only 53% were completed within budget, according to PMI’s 2016 Pulse of the Profession study (and these numbers are down from last year!). PMI sights a lack of leadership, strategy alignment and technical project management skills as the root cause of the problems. Intuitively, I agree but experience tells me it’s something more. I