Assessing Project Success

Managers achieve their long-term business goals or
objectives through strategies. They undertake
projects to realize these strategies. However, in
global businesses, only 2.5% of projects fully
succeed. Researchers found empirical evidence that
the high failure rate of projects is because
managers are not implementing projects that align
with the business strategy. Many researchers have
posited as to the possible affects of implementing
projects not aligned with the business strategy to
the poor alignment between business strategies and
project management. Others emphasized the role of
change as a key to the survival of the
organizations. Many others emphasized the important
role of change management as a key to project
success. However, none has studied the relationship
between change management process or integrated
change management process and project success.
Furthermore, no known research has been conducted to
test if project success in organizations who
implement integrated change management process
exceeds project success in organizations who
implement change management process. The researcher
focused on these aspects in the research.

Autorentext

Dr. Hammoud has almost 30 years of experience in the ICT. He served as a director in Digital Equipment, AT&T, Storage Technology, and Sybase. He is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP). Today, he runs a self-owned consulting firm (www.pm-bc.com)and teaches business and project management courses.

Klappentext

Managers achieve their long-term business goals or objectives through strategies. They undertake projects to realize these strategies. However, in global businesses, only 2.5% of projects fully succeed. Researchers found empirical evidence that the high failure rate of projects is because managers are not implementing projects that align with the business strategy. Many researchers have posited as to the possible affects of implementing projects not aligned with the business strategy to the poor alignment between business strategies and project management. Others emphasized the role of change as a key to the survival of the organizations. Many others emphasized the important role of change management as a key to project success. However, none has studied the relationship between change management process or integrated change management process and project success. Furthermore, no known research has been conducted to test if project success in organizations who implement integrated change management process exceeds project success in organizations who implement change management process. The researcher focused on these aspects in the research.