I should really come clean now. I'm not really interested in just providing you with a list of 'sins' that you may, or may not, identify as being existent/prevalent on your project. I have also endeavoured to align each 'sin' with an appropriate 'penitence' which has been drawn from best practice project management methodology. This should give you a few good ideas about how to apply best practices and run a more effective project.

Before we move on let's quickly outline each sin and its associated penitence:

• Lust (and how it relates to scope management) – Unrestrained desire without consideration of the consequences;
• Gluttony (and how it relates to resource management)– Over indulgence/consumption of anything to the point of waste;
• Greed (and how it relates to communication/knowledge management)– A sin of excess, particularly in relation to the accumulation of wealth;
• Sloth (and how it relates to cost/earned value management) - The failure to utilize one's talents and gifts;
• Wrath (and how it relates to communications/stakeholder management) - An inordinate and uncontrolled feeling of hatred and anger which can manifest itself as vehement denial of the truth, both to others and in the form of self-denial;
• Envy (and how it relates to quality management) – Being desirous of something that someone else has which the individual perceives themselves as lacking; and
• Pride (and how it relates to risk & issue management) - Considered the original and most serious of the seven deadly sins, and indeed the ultimate source from which the others arise. It is primarily identified as a desire to be more important or attractive than others.