Post Mortem of a Project

About a year ago I was part of a project to plan our school's K-5 Science curriculum, in preparation for the annual QR (quality review). Each grade was represented on the project. The curriculum specialist was the project manager. Everything began well with the project manager "identifying the roles and responsibilities of each team member" (Murphy 1994). However, the project was not very successful. If the PM had known then what she knows now things would have been different. The following deficiencies contributed to project failure: team members did not truly represent the target audience. (This caused much push back from faculty members), the team did not have an ID. In addition the team focused on "what would be  nice to know" (Murphy 1994) and the PM was constantly absent,