In search of excellence in project management
Journal of Systems Management - Controlling the project development cycle
Australian Software Development: What Software Project Management Practices Lead to Success?
ASWEC '05 Proceedings of the 2005 Australian conference on Software Engineering
Building Resilience in Large High-Technology Projects: Front End Conditioning for Success
International Journal of Information Technology Project Management
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Success in project management, and particularly in large, high-technology/IT projects, is not easily achieved. This paper draws together a significant number of case studies and research efforts relating to the success and failure of projects from the last four decades, in what is believed to be the only modern meta-study of its type. The author posits that there is a body of knowledge within the literature from which a number of key indicators or focus areas can be derived for practical application especially in the early stages of projects. Studies encompassing more than 2,800 projects are examined, and the success factors for general, and high-technology, projects are newly grouped and ranked as strategic success drivers for use prescriptively by project practitioners and approvers. New correlations between success indicators are presented and the principal drivers examined in further detail to reveal sometimes less obvious characteristics influencing project success. In a series of fieldwork interviews with key staff in high-technology projects, these drivers also emerge consistently as important factors in project success.