Management Advisory Report : Information Systems Best Practices Framework

Many researchers have made an important distinction between project success criteria and success factors. Typically, success criteria are defined as result areas and success factors are defined as organizational areas (Westerveld, 2003). Furthermore, the terms are used to differentiate between project success and project management success (Cooke-Davies, 2002). In general, researchers believe that making a clear distinction between factors and criteria will lead to increased project success (Munns & Bjeirmi, 1996). This can also be looked at as the difference between efficiency and effectiveness, which are often

At first, identifying the potential problems. Though I will pay more attention to the top three classical problems, it is necessary to analyze other potential problems in specific project by investigating similar IT projects that is “Failure” or “Success” before kicking off project. The “similar” can be explained in many aspects, such as same goals, cost, scope, same industry, background and so on. I need to investigate how such similar project fails. For example, we assume that a company want to launch an ERP projects recently. In this area, there are many companies did it before. Failure of high-profile ERP projects is common. In order to avoid mistakes that usually occurs in such IT project, it can investigate many failure projects, such as Airforce, Saudi Telecom and so on. The project failure of Airforce due to the following reasons: weak teamwork & composition and lack of top management support. The Saudi Telecom’s failure attributes to lack of top management support, inadequate of company culture, and huge system customization (Aldammas & Al-Mudimigh, 2011). As you

There is not only one factor impacting IT projects. Multiple factors are present such IT changing, creating shortage of IT skill sets, complexity, every new IT project implies more difficulty, size of the projects, among others. Project managers should be aware and encouraged to work based on three fundamental concepts in order to deal with these impacts on IT projects; cost, time and scope.

All project managers (PM) want their projects to meet all requirements in a timely and cost-effective manner. However, project failure is common in project management because of undefined uncertainties throughout the project. There are many reasons why projects fail and each project can have its own set of complications. Sometimes it is a single incident, but more often than not, several issues that develop over time during the project combined cause a failure. A good project manager must be able to recognize indicators of failure and take action quickly. This paper will discuss six common reasons for project failure and insight into how to avoid them by addressing them immediately and efficiently.

In many studies and reports, project successes tend to be measured against the prescribed schedule, cost and performance. In reality, project success measurement should be against projects constraints and the operational readiness status of the business environment. The combination of the two will assist in efficiently using the product or service as intended.

The paper is divided into three sections, the first of which will establish a timeline of events. This project background will serve as a case study for the analysis in the following section that will be structured such that each of the previously mentioned facets will be independently analyzed and contrasted with project management principles. Finally the paper will conclude with a summary of the analysis and recommendations based on

What are four different approaches to improving the likelihood of success of IT projects? Hint: Understand the major characteristics of each approach.

Any successful project management, regardless of the organizational structure, is only as good as the individuals and leaders who are managing the key functions. Project management is not a single-person operation; it requires a group of individuals dedicated to the achievement of a specific goal.

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

This paper was prepared for Fundamentals of Project Management, Module 2 Check Your Understanding taught by Dr. Levern Eady.

The completion of all phases can determine a project success. The success of a project includes the completion being completed within the allocated time period, within the budgeted cost. It must be completed at the proper performance/quality level with acceptance by the consumer. During this phases there should be minimum scope changes and no disturbance to the main work flow.

If goals are unclear then the execution and completion of the project will not be a successful. The next problem comes is insufficient planning which may lead to delaying of things as expected by the stake holders which not at good for the project. Next comes resources inadequate, project manager should be capable of dealing with that problem. After this comes handling changes at the construction site which is again a important problem as in a big project many small changes are made so project manager should be able to handle changes. Then comes meeting (unrealistic) deadline, project manager should finish the work in deadline as planned and organized by him earlier. Then comes weak inter-unit integration and inter personal conflicts which can be management by good team building skills and by a good problem solver project manager. If team members are uncommitted towards project they can be make committed by motivating. Then comes breakdown in communication, breakdowns generally happen on the construction site which there is so much work and again it can be solved by good communicating

Team Structure- Building a proper team that is apt for the work becomes a major key to success, because the success of the project depends on the performance of the team.

The top ten factors for a successful project are, user involvement, executive management support, clear statement of requirements, proper planning, realistic expectations, smaller project milestones, competent staff, ownership, communication, adequate support and resources.( Iman Attarzadeh and Siew Hock Ow)The ten factors that cause a project to fail are, poor planning and/or inadequate process, inefficient way to document and track progress, poor leadership at any level, failure to set expectations and manage them, inadequately-trained project managers, inaccurate cost estimation, lack of communication at any level, culture or ethical misalignment, competing priorities and disregard of project warning signs (Lim, 2012). Iman Attarzadeh and Siew Hock Ow, also have another list that identifies project challenge factors. These factors are identify as, lack of user input, incomplete requirements and specifications, changing requirements and specifications, lack of executive support, technology

In order to achieve their business objective, project management and the used methodology are key factor which will be responsible for the success or failure of this project.