Go Live or Die Trying: The Unwritten Rules of Delivering Tech Projects in Nigeria

You have attended the kickoff meeting, the project plan is in a shared folder somewhere, and the client has said "we are aligned." And yet, 27 weeks in, you are chasing a CAB approval that does not exist, managing a stakeholder who has not responded since the opening call, and explaining to your boss why go-live is now "next Friday", for the fourth time.

Nobody warned you about the chaos you have to endure when delivering tech projects in Nigeria, this book does.

Go Live or Die Trying is a firsthand account of what it actually takes to deliver technology projects in Nigeria.

Across 19 chapters, you will find:

• Why the proposal was written without you, and what that means for everything that follows.
• The cast of characters you will meet on every project: the executive sponsor who disappears, the compliance officer who arrives late, the user who was never consulted, and the man who does not know what he is talking about.
• How change requests, CAB, and UAT become the three places where projects go to slow down and die.
• What actually happens when you encounter your first transaction failure after go-live, and how to survive post go-live support.
• The things nobody tells you: how relationships are infrastructure, when to push and when to absorb, and why your reputation is a balance sheet you are always building.

If you are new to tech project delivery in Nigeria, this is the head start you deserved from day one. If you have been doing this for years, this is the book you will forward to every junior PM who walks into your team looking bright-eyed and unbothered.

They will thank you, eventually.