Dominant Visible Symptoms

How can early warning signs be identified and acted upon, so that problems are avoided and software projects are successful in delivering the expected value for their owners and other stakeholders? What signals should we look for? The following six pertinent questions are quite helpful in managing software projects. 1. How successful are current project assessment methods in trying to uncover early warning signs of problems? 2. How do current project assessment methods try to uncover early warning signs of problems? 3. Why do methods fail to detect early warning signals? 4. How can project assessments handle the complexity in projects and their context? 5. Which practices seem more appropriate in which contexts? 6. What are the most important early warning signals to look for in the different contexts