Project Success - A Survey

Over the past decade there has been a growing literature on project success criteria, however there has been relatively little empirical data. This paper provides a significant contribution to the knowledge of project success by providing empirical data on the subject, by means of a survey of 150 Au...

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Main Authors: Collins, A., Baccarini, David
Format: Journal Article
Published: World Scientific Publishing 2004
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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/28361
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description Over the past decade there has been a growing literature on project success criteria, however there has been relatively little empirical data. This paper provides a significant contribution to the knowledge of project success by providing empirical data on the subject, by means of a survey of 150 Australian project managers on the subject of project success criteria. An analysis of the data found two distinct views: those that perceived project success solely in terms of the traditional project objectives of time, cost and quality; and those that considered success in terms of these objectives and the effectiveness of the project?s product. The traditional project management success criteria of time, cost and quality still has a strong hold within the project management community in Australia. However, the most important success criterion was considered to be the product success criterion of meeting the owner?s needs.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-283612017-09-13T15:51:05Z Project Success - A Survey Collins, A. Baccarini, David project management success project success product success Over the past decade there has been a growing literature on project success criteria, however there has been relatively little empirical data. This paper provides a significant contribution to the knowledge of project success by providing empirical data on the subject, by means of a survey of 150 Australian project managers on the subject of project success criteria. An analysis of the data found two distinct views: those that perceived project success solely in terms of the traditional project objectives of time, cost and quality; and those that considered success in terms of these objectives and the effectiveness of the project?s product. The traditional project management success criteria of time, cost and quality still has a strong hold within the project management community in Australia. However, the most important success criterion was considered to be the product success criterion of meeting the owner?s needs. 2004 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/28361 10.1142/S1609945104000152 http://www.worldscinet.com/cgi-bin/details.cgi?id=jsname:jcr&type=all World Scientific Publishing fulltext
spellingShingle project management success
project success
product success
Collins, A.
Baccarini, David
Project Success - A Survey
title Project Success - A Survey
title_full Project Success - A Survey
title_fullStr Project Success - A Survey
title_full_unstemmed Project Success - A Survey
title_short Project Success - A Survey
title_sort project success - a survey
topic project management success
project success
product success
url http://www.worldscinet.com/cgi-bin/details.cgi?id=jsname:jcr&type=all
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/28361