Every project undergoes an effectiveness evaluation. There are certain requirements that a
project needs to fulfill in order to be deemed successful. Financial viability is a requirement that almost all projects must clearly meet. I will begin to discuss Boston’s “Big Dig” which was a highway and tunnel project and evaluate and briefly explain if all the criteria were met for this project to be successful. The Big Dig is a project that’s located in Boston, Massachusetts and its one of the massive projects they have ever been done to improve the flow of traffic on highways/tunnels. The total cost of this project was approximately 24.3 billion dollars. This is one of the most expensive projects done in the U.S. The project was planned to begin in 1982, and work was finished between 1991 and 2006, with construction wrapping up on December 31, 2007.
Criteria that were used to analyze and evaluate The Big Dig project are, Cost, timeline, scope, and deliverables. This project was the most challenging project that’s ever been done because of the highway’s infrastructure. Each criterion that I listed was appropriate to determine the project’s success because each criterion lays out the importance for making this project successful. For instance, the project scope gives the project goals, deadlines and deliverables that
will be worked on, and this was a criterion that the Big Dig project challenged with. Scope creep caused cost and schedule overruns in the Boston Big Dig project because the project's requirements were not met (McNamara, 2022). Scope creep is something that needs to be avoided to decrease the possible risks of delay the project end goal and maintaining a budget.
