Are you an entrepreneur or
a business owner or a professional or a passionate guy with an
amazing idea? At least at one point of time you need a website. There
are too many other ways to reach out to target audience but a website
is more than that. A website could be automation to your business
process or just a business profile. It’s all up to you, how you use
it or let your audience use it. The mobile app time is at its peak
but website has been and will possess its place in future as well and
even an app needs a website.
Once you thought you need
a website, now you are sure that you need a website. Now the serious
question is how to go for a website. We call it a serious question
because as per ZD Net overall:
- 29% of web projects failed due to incorrect budget estimation
- 21% failed to fulfill clients requirements
- 55% of total failed projects failed due to too many changes in project
- 31% website could not be delivered within the agreed timeline
What we understood from
above is project failed mostly due to:
- Changing requirements
- Inconsistent stakeholder demands
- Insufficient time or budget
So the above theory of
failure needs to be understood before initialing a new web project.
Still you can minimize the failure risk but cannot guarantee of
success due to other various factors. So what you need to keep in
mind is:
Do Your Home Work
As the main cause of
failure mentioned above is changing requirements. It’s easy to
predict things when you are designing a website for your business
profile or a personal website because you know in and out of business
and a little less information on website will not hurt you. But when
it comes to planning business process automation or working on an
idea, it could be really messy and complex. Just remember, a website designing company could help you only
in executive plan you already have or suggest automation and
boundaries to the project. So you need to be less dependent on the
web team and do more homework on your project.
Document Things
As the second reason of
major failure is “Inconsistent stakeholder demands” which mean
you had an idea at 4 PM and you dialed a company at 4 PM. It’s good
to get excited about your website designing plan but you surely need to
give time to the project you thought will work. It’s better to
document things and keeps checking it back so that you don’t keep
on changing requirements and goals. If you do so, website designing
company could lose interest or increase the project budget.
Allow Time for Project
We rarely see client who
says that I am not in hurry. We all should be determining to the
timelines but if you force web team to cut short time and budget, it
could lead to bugs and incompleteness in project. It’s always good
to check, compare and then assign project.
Conclusion:
Now we at least know the
major failure reasons and could prepare ourselves to prevent them. A
website is a brand representative of your business so its advised to
invest good time budget and choose website designing company wisely.
