Project management practices: Success versus failure

Attarzadeh, Iman; Ow, Siew Hock

doi:10.1109/itsim.2008.4631634

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“…The success of software development project is assessed in terms of meeting the scope, schedule, cost and quality constraints of the projects (Chow & Cao, 2008;Attarzadeh & Ow, 2008;Agarwal & Rathod, 2006). Distributed Agile projects are able to reach project goals suffice the customer needs, but suffer from significant risks caused by the opposing nature of Distributed Development and Agile methods.…”

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A Goal-driven Risk Management approach for Distributed Agile Development Projects

Shrivastava¹,

Rathod²

2019

AJIS

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Software companies are now using Distributed Agile Development (DAD) in order to create high quality solutions, which aligns with the business priorities of lesser time and cost. Although, DAD is beneficial, there are significant risks involved in such projects. In order to minimize the adverse effect of risks on DAD projects, it is imperative to understand, how the risks impact the project performance goals including ‘Time’, ‘Cost’ and ‘Quality’. In this paper we present a goal driven approach for managing risks in DAD projects. This approach of risk management will enable project managers to identify the most important risks with respect to the goal to be achieved and focus on managing those risks first. The study shows that if ‘Time’ is a considered goal for a DAD project, the most important risks that would need consideration are related to requirement management, architecture changes and coordination issues between stakeholders. Similarly, if ‘Quality’ is the primary performance goal in a DAD project, it would be necessary to first deal with risks related to internal and external communication in the organization, team collaboration and requirement documentation availability. The awareness of top ranking risk factors that impact a particular project goal will assist the projects managers to control the risks in a way that the desired project goals can be achieved.

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A Goal-driven Risk Management approach for Distributed Agile Development Projects

Shrivastava¹,

Rathod²

2019

AJIS

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“…Es decir, cuando las estimaciones iniciales de costos y programas no son revisadas aun cuando existe más información disponible mientras el proyecto progresa. Adicionalmente, los planes no se usan correctamente o se utilizan para orientar el proyecto hacia adelante, haciendo así que el proyecto se dirija al fracaso (Attarzadeh & Ow, 2008) . Por lo tanto, los proyectos complejos con objetivos poco realistas, los equipos no probados y casi ninguna responsabilidad en todos los niveles de la estructura de gestión y de gobierno, significa que nadie es responsable del incumplimiento (Moore, 2015) .…”

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Modelo de gobierno de tecnología de la informatión para mejorar el desempeño de proyectos de negocio minorista

Cano

Domínguez

2018

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En esta era de transformación por la que atraviesa el autoservicio minorista, los proyectos de negocio donde participa la gestión tecnológica se han visto impactados negativamente sobre su cumplimiento y control. En este sentido, el objetivo es generar un modelo de gobierno para mejorar el desempeño de proyectos de tecnología de información. El diseño es descriptivo y el método cuantitativo, la limitación del proceso metodológico se da en la aplicación de instrumento de indagación a los ejecutivos y líderes de proyectos del sector seleccionado en la Ciudad de México. No obstante, se llega al hallazgo que los ambientes con procesos simples se han convertido en factores sostenibles. Como resultado se comprende que no es un asunto unilateral en el que el área de tecnología se alinea al negocio, sino cómo se vinculan ambas partes a través de estrategias. Su originalidad radica en la inclusión de factores agiles, flexibles y humanos.

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“…IT Projects have a terrible track record of their success and failure in the past couple of decades [3]. The1995 Standish Group study (CHAOS) found that only 16.2% of projects were successful in meeting only scope, time, and cost goals, and over 31% of projects were canceled before completion [4].…”

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Cloud-Based Outsourcing Framework for Efficient IT Project Management Practices

Alemu¹,

Adane²,

Kumar³

et al. 2020

IJACSA

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The optimum utilization of human resources is one of the crucial exercises in IT organizations. To provide a wellorganized and cohesive working environment, organizations need to review their work culture in reference to newly evolved tools and techniques. To reduce the development cost of the IT projects and the optimum utilization of human resources, organizations need to review and redesign the project development processes. The significant challenges faced by IT organizations are the rapid switch-over (attrition) of IT professionals, physical migration or deployment, and redeployment of the human resources. This research paper is an effort towards the multilateral exploration of the techniques to adapt and improve the ICT enabled project management practices in an outsourced environment. This research is an effort with special reference to developing countries such as Ethiopia, where an acute shortage of high skilled IT human resources and their physical migration from one project location to another project location is a costly and challenging task. Ethiopia as a developing country and its IT industry is challenged by several issues like the capacity of ICT infrastructure and the skilled human resources. In such situations, IT projects are either challenged, impaired, or completed failed due to lack of IT human resources with desired skills and ultramodern up to date IT infrastructure. In this research paper, cloud computing technology is assumed as a key to the solution. For this, a systematic and careful investigation using mixed data analysis approach was used to adopt cloudbased outsourcing in IT project management practices i.e. design, development, and testing over outsourced systems by outsourced IT human resources. The major findings of this paper are to investigate and analyze how these cloud-based resources can be explored without physical movement or migration. For the novel improvement in the existing IT project management practices, the salient stakeholders' views were collected and analyzed for designing cloud-based outsourcing IT project management framework for the Ethiopian IT industry. The framework was functionally tested over the cloud-based Bitrix24 platform.

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Project management practices: Success versus failure

Cited by 33 publications

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A Goal-driven Risk Management approach for Distributed Agile Development Projects

A Goal-driven Risk Management approach for Distributed Agile Development Projects

Modelo de gobierno de tecnología de la informatión para mejorar el desempeño de proyectos de negocio minorista

Cloud-Based Outsourcing Framework for Efficient IT Project Management Practices

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