Chapter 14
When PIPS Fails
Philosophy
When PIPS fails. Honest examination of common failure modes, anti-patterns, and how to recognize and recover from them.
PIPS does not always work. No methodology does. This chapter examines the most common failure modes — not to discourage you, but to arm you with the pattern recognition to see trouble coming.
The most dangerous failure mode is not a bad fishbone diagram or a weak criteria matrix. It is the organizational failure to follow through. Teams do the analysis, pick a solution, build a plan, and then nothing happens.
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- •The most common failure is not analytical — it is organizational: leadership does not follow through
- •Skipping steps creates a cascade of failures downstream
- •If the team cannot agree on the problem statement, the project is not ready
- •Failed PIPS projects still teach — capture the lessons and feed them forward