Implementing Success Management in an IT project

IT Project Success from the Management Perspective - A Quantitative Evaluation

This work investigates the effects that different success criteria and their dimensions may have on the success of IT projects. It focuses on a model that represents the management’s view of the success of an IT project. This is of particular interest due to demand for developing and examining such a model. To show the effects of the success criteria and their dimensions a survey of 646 partici...

Managing IT Projects for Success: Reengineering or Better Project Management?

IT projects can fail for any number of reasons and in some cases can result in considerable financial losses for the organizations that undertake them. The strategic importance that IT now plays coupled with the burgeoning costs of developing information systems has raised the stakes associated with project failure. While it is dimcult to obtain statistics on the actual frequency of information...

critical success factor in it project risk management in virtual enterprise: multi case study

as spending on it rises steeply, organizations become increasingly technology-dependent and, consequently, they become highly vulnerable to the risks of it failure. the latest report on the failure of many complex it projects to deliver key benefits on time and to target cost and specification was published jointly by the royal academy of engineering and the british computer society. one of the...

Project Management: Success Factors

Project Managers' Skills and Project Success in IT Outsourcing

What skills do project managers (PMs) need, and how do these skills impact project success in IT outsourcing? In this study, we seek to identify what factors impact IT project outcomes, such as costs and client satisfaction, given the project characteristics and PM’s hard and soft skills. We examine data collected from a field study conducted at a major IT service provider in India. Our results...