This will be a one our session that will begin with a case study called Burning Man. The case study will draw from the presenter’s real life experience of a failed IT project. In examining the reasons for the project failure and introducing a number of additional “impossible” projects, the presentation will provide the attendees with a number of indicators to watch for on their own IT projects. It will also present different techniques for addressing “impossible” projects and how to not only mitigate the challenges, by turning the projects around, redefine their success criteria or when necessary, know when and how to pull the plug.