Project Success and Project Management Success
Written by Magnus Stjernborg Koch - s175189
There are major benefits in evaluating and learning from past projects going forward to new projects. The evaluation can be performed in various ways, however, something that is always on the agenda is determining the success of how the project was managed and the outcome of the project.
The project success and project management success does not have an exact definition, however, are key terms when evaluating, and getting an idea of the overall result of an ended project. This is also important because is often during projects that the project manager loses sight of the project success in favour of ensuring the project management success. Which the result could be not actually solving the problem that was the scope of the project. [1]
This article will give an understanding of how to determine the project success and project management success. Furthermore, how to apply the determination of the success. [2] [3] [4] [5]
- Survey from project managers showing that close to 50% see project success and project management success as the same.
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Determining project success
Project success is focusing on successfully achieving the scope, goals and change that was the original intentation of the project. [6]The project may be upgrading the IT infrastructure in a national healthcare or the building of a bridge. Project success would in the healthcare IT infrastructure ensuring that the new IT infrastructure is being used and actually giving the healthcare benefits of the digitalization. Whereas the building of a bridge project would be a project success if the bridge can carry the required cars over the bridge, working for future generations and resistant in the local environment. [1]
- Success criteria and factors for project success
Short-term and long-term
- Reflecting on present major projects he hospital IT implementation and Construction project as examples
Determining project management success
Project management success is the more related to the management part of the project meaning delivering on schedule, within budget, and the quality. [3] In contrast to the healthcare IT infrastructure it would be the quality of the systems implemented, how it performs, and the amount of bugs/changes needed after the project ends. The building of a bridge project would be the quality of the construction
- Success criteria and factors for project management success
- Reflecting on present major projects he hospital IT implementation and Construction project as examples
Difference between project success and project management success
- A short conclusion on above
- Bullet points on differences
Application
- When and how can determining the success of the project and project management be used by project managers and organizations
- Reflection and evaluation of projects can improve the overall performance of future execution of projects
Limitations
- Limits to determining the success
- Limits in terms of using the tool
References/Annotated bibliography
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 BY Maltzman, Richard; Shirley, David, IN Driving Project, Program, Portfolio Success: The Sustainability Wheel — 2019
- ↑ Shokri-ghasabeh, Morteza; Kavousi-chabok, Kamyar, Generic Project Success and Project Management Success Criteria and Factors: Literature Review and Survey, 2014, http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.488.7370
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 BY Venczel, T. B; Berényi, L; Hriczó, K, IN Project Management Success Factors, Volume 1935, Issue 1, pp. 012005, https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/1935/1/012005
- ↑ BY Radujković, Mladen; Sjekavica, Mariela, IN Procedia Engineering — 2017, Volume 196, pp. 607-615
- ↑ BY Smyrk, John R.; Zwikael, Ofer, IN Project Management — 2019, pp. 153-185
- ↑ https://www.pm4dev.com/pm4dev-blog/entry/definition-of-project-success.html
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