Project management

Factors that effect on

project success
Group members
 Hamna
 Mohsin raza
 Fazeela Nawaz
 Zeshan Ehsan
 Danish Ejaz
Topic outline
 Introduction
 Literature review
 Factors that effect on project
• Risk
• Stakeholders
• Lack of support from top management
• Commitment of stakeholder
• Weak commitment with team
Introduction
Due to faller of overlooking possible risk in most
projects, many companies suffer usually wastage of
resources. according to the research 20% of IT
project are cancelled before its complication, only
one third of IT project are archived and are
completed well on time and budget
Risk in project can be divide into three types:
1. project management risk,
2. social subsystem risk
3. technical risk.
Introduction
In Pakistan context, in project there are number of
stakeholder who provide resources in order to
effectively in project.
According to research 83% project fail in teams of
delay because unrealistic commitment are promised
to get project in bulk or realistic commitment are
not full filled .
leadership of project manager play an important
role in the success of project. it is the duty of the
manger that manger get out of best of his team
which delicately lies between the manager and
success of the project.
introduction
According to Marks, Zaccaro & Mathieu
Past leadership studies have noted that leader
communication of enriched task information to the
team results in high group effectiveness
Project success is not the same as project
management success.
A project is an interrelated set of activities with a
definite starting and ending point, which result in a
unique outcome for a specific allocation of resources.
The definition specifies that a project is a
“temporary endeavor” signifying that there is a
definite end date.
Literature review
Following are some other factors include in the
success of project according to past articular and
authors
Everyone ‘needs to pull the oars in the same
direction, if not, the project won’t initiate’.
Such situation is arise, when the purpose and
advantages are not coherent and communicate then
the stake holder of the parent project as they are
the ones who provide resources as well as support
for the project ,soon withdrawn from the project.
Literature review
Forture & White (2006) found that
employee training as a success factor in uk
government project
however another researcher critic on White and
says that
in their study of development project found that
capacity building including ‘employee training’ had
no effect on project success .(khang & moe , 2008)
Two researcher looked at 40 years of literature on
project success and found it could no longer be
viewed in the narrow confines of the “iron triangle”
(scope, time & cost). (Jugdev and Muller, 2005)
Literature review
There are two factors project efficiency and impact
on customer that are common in project success.
Organization should develop the capabilities to take
on new project and achieve this by papering for
future dimension (Andersen, Dyrhaug, & Jessen,
2002; Shenhar & Dvir, 2007).
Thomas & Fernández (2008) studied the definition
and measurement of Information Technology
project success in Australian companies and
concluded that
the project success is influence by the way
organization define and the measure of success. He
also says that trams are more likely to achieve the
project if they are provided by the clear way of define
and measure of success
Literature review
According to Lipvostick,tisher,diver
project success in defense industry identify that four
success factors or dimension
1. meeting design goals
2. benefit to the customer
3. benefit to the developing organization
4. benefit to the defenses and national
infrastructures
Factors that effect on project
success
Following are the factors that effect on project
success
1. Risk
2. Stakeholder
3. Lack of support from the top management
4. Commitment of stakeholders
5. Weak commitment with team members
1. Risk
There are three kinds of risk in a project that effect
on project success
1. Project management risks
2. social subsystem risks
3. technical subsystem risks
complex systems, new technology or lack of
expertise such kind of risk can be arise. To avoid
such risk in projects , management should take an
effective risk management policy
2. Stake holder
In Pakistani context, projects have a number of
stakeholders that contribute their resources in
order to efficiently deliver the project.
 Problem is that
actual demand of resources > available resources
This means that the forecasted sales may not
always be equal to the actual level of production as
well as the level of employment.
 To avoid such problem manger should
1. Stakeholders have to be committed
2. each stakeholder is fully involved in the project
3. Lack of support from the top
management
The Lack of support from the top management can
be termed as the early warning sign which can cause
demotivation amongst the employees (Leon,
Kappelman, McKeeman and Zhang; 2006).
When a bottom up approach is applied in the
management function of an organization then such
problem is arise