Practical Training to Prevent IT Project Collapse to be Held in Akihabara

The IR Technical Education Research Institute is hosting a two-day training seminar designed to systematize the mechanisms behind IT project collapse, teaching participants how to detect early warning signs, assess risks, and formulate plans through practical exercises.

While DX promotion and system modernization are accelerating, projects continue to "go up in flames" due to ambiguous requirements, poorly grounded milestones, and a lack of primary information. Major failures do not happen suddenly; they manifest as small judgment errors or oversights in the initial stages that chain together, causing problems to snowball. Organizations are now required to possess the design capability to turn past lessons into reproducible wisdom and avoid such failures before they occur.

Seminar Overview

• Seminar Name: Preventing IT Project Collapse! "Structuring Small Failures" and "Failure Avoidance Planning" Practical Training
• Venue: Nihon IR Co., Ltd. Headquarters Seminar Room [Akihabara, Tokyo]
• Date & Time: Day 1: 2026/5/13 (Thu) 9:30–16:30; Day 2: 2026/5/14 (Fri) 9:30–16:30
• Capacity: 16 people
• Fee: 99,000 yen (tax included)
• Instructor: Takashi Fukasawa (Representative Director, Imagine Spark Co., Ltd.)

Course Details

This training is a two-day practical program that teaches participants to identify early signs of IT project failure ("failure flags"), organize causes and chains of events through "structuring small failures," and translate them into "avoidable plans" through intensive planning exercises. Participants will review each other's "most difficult experiences" to elevate individual knowledge into lessons that can be utilized by the organization.
※Attendance on both days is mandatory.

Seminar Program

1. [Lecture] Roadmap to Failure: Detecting Failure Flags

• Explanation of behaviors leading to failure by category
• The dangers of relying on speculation and avoiding primary information in "information gathering"
• Establishing a "Knowledge Baseline" to avoid trouble
• Collapse caused by setting milestones without evidence

2. [Lecture/Exercise] Basics of Risk Management and Turning Experience into Lessons

• Reviewing basic concepts of risk management
• Group discussion and mutual review: Turning others' failures into shared knowledge

3. [Practical Exercise] Planning to Avoid Trouble (Setup Phase)

• Selection of subject projects and simulation settings
• "Scope Definition (IN/OUT)" exercise
• Risk assessment and countermeasure planning exercise

4. [Practical Exercise] Planning to Avoid Trouble (Planning Phase)

• Formulating plans starting from "what we want to achieve"
• Practical simulation of project planning

5. [Group Discussion/Summary]

• Key points for avoiding project failure