A Holistic Approach for Understanding Project Management

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 17-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theresa A. Kraft ◽  
Annette L. Steenkamp
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Critical Success Factors ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
It Projects ◽  
Critical Success ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
It Project ◽  
Project Failures ◽  
It Project Failure

Companies invest significant sums of money in major Information Technology (IT) projects, yet success remains limited. Despite an abundance of IT Project Management (ITPM) resources available to project teams, such as the Project Management Institute (PMI) Body of Knowledge, IT standards and IT governance, a large percentage of IT projects continue to fail and ultimately get scrapped. Recent studies have shown an average of 66% IT project failure rate, with 52% of the projects being cancelled, and 82% being delivered late. The purpose of this research was to provide a way for uncovering potential causes of IT project failures by utilizing a systemic and holistic approach to identify critical success factors for project management. The holistic approach has enabled the development of an ITPM conceptual model, which provides a method to evaluate the critical success factors of a given project, and their alignment with each other. The adoption of the systemic methodology and its implementation increase the potential for IT project success, and alert project leaders of potential problems throughout the life of the project.

A Holistic Approach for Understanding Project Management

2012 ◽  
pp. 25-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theresa A. Kraft ◽  
Annette Lerine Steenkamp
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Critical Success Factors ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
It Project Management ◽  
It Projects ◽  
Critical Success ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
It Project ◽  
Project Failures

Companies invest significant sums of money in major Information Technology (IT) projects, yet success remains limited. Despite an abundance of IT Project Management (ITPM) resources available to project teams, such as the Project Management Institute (PMI) Body of Knowledge, IT standards and IT governance, a large percentage of IT projects continue to fail and ultimately get scrapped. Recent studies have shown an average of 66% IT project failure rate, with 52% of the projects being cancelled, and 82% being delivered late. The purpose of this research was to provide a way for uncovering potential causes of IT project failures by utilizing a systemic and holistic approach to identify critical success factors for project management. The holistic approach has enabled the development of an ITPM conceptual model, which provides a method to evaluate the critical success factors of a given project, and their alignment with each other. The adoption of the systemic methodology and its implementation increase the potential for IT project success, and alert project leaders of potential problems throughout the life of the project.

Feral Government?

2015 ◽  
pp. 1375-1393
Author(s):  
Annie Maddison
Keyword(s):  
Success Factors ◽  
Project Team ◽  
It Projects ◽  
Workflow Technology ◽  
Critical Success ◽  
It Project ◽  
The Uk ◽  
It Project Failure ◽  
Contingent Solutions

Using workflow technologies as a metaphor for Critical Success Factors (CSFs), this chapter considers their use to improve the performance of major government IT projects, asking whether context can be ignored without repercussion or whether it is highly significant. Focusing on the UK, this exploration begins by defining “context,” then considering what it means in terms of government. A case study demonstrates that context limits the value of CSFs to a major government IT project. Whilst claiming to submit to the imposed workflow technology, the project team developed feral behaviour, manipulating the CSFs to match previous ways of working with no action being taken to ensure compliance. However, increased governance is not the answer. It would simply force these generic solutions on to unique problems; more contingent solutions should be sought to the problem of IT project failure in order to take these highly specific contexts into account.

scholarly journals Efektivitas Scrum Pada Manajemen Proyek Teknologi Informasi Di Pt Bank Central Asia Tbk.

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shandy Shandy
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
Significant Influence ◽  
Critical Success Factors ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Research Use ◽  
It Project Management ◽  
Independent Variables ◽  
Critical Success ◽  
It Project

Since the end of 2014, BCA has started to use Scrum framework in order to switch from waterfall methodology that already considered as traditional IT project methodology. Regarding that condition, this research aims to find out the effectiveness of Scrum framework on IT project management at PT Bank Central Asia Tbk (BCA). This research use a model to describe correlation between five Scrum Critical Success Factors ,that assumed as measurement of Scrum effectiveness, and four factors perceived as success of IT project management. With this model, the research has twelve independent variables and four dependent variables to be analyzed. This research use quantitative method and multiple regression analysis as a method for conducting analysis. The study found that three from five Scrum Critical Success Factors that have significant influence to four factors perceived as success of IT project management. From those three Scrum Critical Success Factors, there are five independent variables that have significant influence, such as management commitment, project management process, project definition process, project type and project schedule. The use of Scrum framework is quite effective on IT project management at PT Bank Central Asia Tbk.

Feral Government?

2014 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Annie Maddison
Keyword(s):  
Success Factors ◽  
Project Team ◽  
It Projects ◽  
Workflow Technology ◽  
Critical Success ◽  
It Project ◽  
The Uk ◽  
It Project Failure ◽  
Contingent Solutions

Using workflow technologies as a metaphor for Critical Success Factors (CSFs), this chapter considers their use to improve the performance of major government IT projects, asking whether context can be ignored without repercussion or whether it is highly significant. Focusing on the UK, this exploration begins by defining “context,” then considering what it means in terms of government. A case study demonstrates that context limits the value of CSFs to a major government IT project. Whilst claiming to submit to the imposed workflow technology, the project team developed feral behaviour, manipulating the CSFs to match previous ways of working with no action being taken to ensure compliance. However, increased governance is not the answer. It would simply force these generic solutions on to unique problems; more contingent solutions should be sought to the problem of IT project failure in order to take these highly specific contexts into account.

Integrating Conceptual and Empirical Approaches for Software Engineering Research

2012 ◽  
pp. 298-319 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annette Lerine Steenkamp ◽  
Theresa Kraft
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Project Management ◽  
Software Engineering ◽  
Critical Success Factors ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Engineering Research ◽  
Critical Success ◽  
It Project ◽  
Information Technology Project Management ◽  
Software Engineering Research

This chapter addresses the systemic integration of conceptual and empirical methods in Software Engineering (SWE) research in terms of the systems approach, where theory, empiricism, and pragmatics are combined as required in the research phases. The following themes form the framework of systemic integration during SWE research processes: Theme 1 - Research Planning (Problem Analysis & Literature Review); Theme 2 – Proposal Development; Theme 3 – Conceptualization; Theme 4 – Experimentation and Research Validation. An illustrative research example is provided in terms of the four themes. The purpose of this research example was to provide a way to uncover potential causes of Information Technology (IT) project failures by employing a systemic and holistic approach to identify critical success factors for Project Management (PM). This has enabled the development of an Information Technology Project Management approach, which provides a method to evaluate the critical success factors of a given project, and the alignment of these factors with each other. The systemic methodology and its implementation proposed in this research increase the potential for IT project success by alerting project leaders of potential problems throughout the life of the project.

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