Critical Success Factors
Pinto & Slevin (1988) developed a list of critical success factors (CSFs) that are essential to the success of any project. In the early 1990’s research was carried out based on 400 different types of projects that used these CSFs and found that these managerial, behavioural and organisational issues that remain within the control of the project manager are what contribute most highly to project success (Hamilton, 2001). These 10 critical success factors are referenced highly in project management literature:
• Project mission: the objectives and purpose of the project must be understood by all stakeholders involved in the project.
• Top management support: senior management must be willing to provide resources such
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This should include schedules, milestones, and equipment and labour requirements. It is also necessary to have measurement system in place to judge actual performance against time schedules and budget.
• Client consultation: clients, which is any entity that will make use of the product of the project, must be communicated with, consulted with and listened to throughout the duration of the project life-cycle. There is a correlation between client involvement and their support for the end result
• Personnel: the recruitment, selection and training of personnel should be developed based on skill and not overlooked.
• Technical tasks: it is necessary that personal have the right technical skills and technology available to them to perform the tasks. It is vital that project managers understand the technology.
• Client acceptance: efficiency of the project is determined in the final stage of the project life cycle. The client must accept the finished project.
• Monitoring: each step of a project needs monitoring and feedback which give the project manager the ability to anticipate problems, to ensure no deficiencies occur and to oversee corrective
A projects success and project managements success must be differentiated, as a project managements success can be measured by performance against quality, time and cost however a projects success can be measured by the overall projects objectives (Cooke-Davies 2002). The key criteria of a project discussed above is what the project management team and organisation together have set for the projects objective, which are the desired outcomes of the project from various aspects and stakeholders of an organisation. The following can be a standard for an organisation to follow to lessen the chance of project failure. Management must be engaged in the project and ready to support the needs of the project as top management have the resources, authority and power for implementation and as such can contribute and improve the project along the way. The project has clearly defined goals and directions with detailed specifications of the implementation process, client consultation with back and forth communication during the entire process and finally how the project is executed. Stakeholders also should agree upon success criteria of a project to ensure each stakeholders needs are met (Davis. K 2013).
Project management provides reasonable scientific solutions in order to overcome difficulties and achieve success. Each project has a variety of objectives have to achieve, these objectives are vary and can be for organization objectives or for social objectives. However, the project objectives could face some obstacles could be lead to limited success. The attempt to discover the factors of project success and project failure was not easy task for both scholars and expertise. These definitions can provide a close understanding and explanation for these terms. Many project management literatures have variety definitions of project success. (Adinyira, 2012) pointed out that Pinto and Slevin (1988) defined the success as delivering projects on proper time, cost and quality. Others like westerveld, elizabith have different ideas regarding the success that are related to the judge of stakeholders and organizational management. However, nowadays success become more complex issue to determine, it is not only meeting the costs and time it is belonging to the typology and sector of the project
▸ ▸ List several tasks and outputs of project execution Discuss what is involved in directing and managing project execution as part of project integration management, including the importance of producing promised deliverables, implementing solutions to problems, evaluating work performance information, and requesting changes to a project Explain the importance of recommending corrective actions and updating project-related information as part of quality assurance
Client and the contractor have same priorities. Basically, contractor will make the decision in turnkey approach and client will just accept in silent. In this project, the contractor and the client have the same focus and priorities therefore the relationship between the contractor and client is good and there is no overruns or communication problems between both sides.
client organizations, engineering and design firms. The objective of this paper is to investigate the
What factors can influence project success is ubiquitously documented in literatures. However, when using it, one may find out it is
The client should be aware from the planning phase that he might be at lost due to the nature of the project.
It is imperative that the architect convince the client that he or she has the necessary experience and capability to undertake the project and to complete it satisfactorily. S/M has found with its large projects that the amount of time spent meeting with the client
thought in this area being: how success is judged and the factors that contribute to the
Describe the main phases of the project lifecycle. Critically discuss where in this lifecycle failures may occur and explain how effective project management might reduce their likelihood.
The Project Management Institute, Inc. defines project management as “the application of knowledge, skills, tools and techniques to a broad range of activities in order to meet the requirements of a particular project” (Metafuse, 2015). Projects are completed by a group of people that will continue to develop as the project progresses. The most well known model to describe this process identifies five different stages that lead a team towards success.
Quality is a very important factor in restaurants because a visit in a restaurant is usually something people do to enjoy rather something that is of vital importance. Even if the prices for the meals in a restaurant are low and the delivery times short this cannot compensate for poor quality of the food, specially also because this is a health aspect. This makes it necessary to implement a quality control system to ensure that the quality of the food is always on a high level.
This constraint constructs a triangle with geometric proportions illustrating the strong interpedently relationship between these factors. If there is requirement to shift any one of these factors then at least one of the other factors must also be manipulated.
As the project manager you are ultimately responsible for delivering a successful project. The buck stops with you, so it is in your interest to ensure relevant tools and techniques are deployed to make this happen. Some of the following may sound obvious but I encounter these basic mistakes month in month out with project managers scratching their heads wondering how and why it all went wrong.
The following report is aimed at exploring the importance of a project management system and its role in determining the final outcome of a project. The report will allow the reader to understand the reasons that attribute to the success and also the failure of a project. Most projects are considered a failure although the final objective is accomplished as they are not able to adhere to the fundamental factors of cost, quality and time. The reasons for this are highlighted in the report and the author provides some tools and techniques that can be used in project management to facilitate project success. Some of the limitations of this research are discussed and the author provides recommendations that can be used to add