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Critical factors in successful project implementation
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1987
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Total Quality ManagementProject-based OrganizationEngineeringProject ManagementProgram ManagementTen Factor ModelOrganizational BehaviorManagement EffectivenessManagementSoftware Project ManagementSoftware ImplementationDesignSuccessful Project ManagementStrategic ManagementCritical Success FactorsSoftware DesignCritical FactorsSoftware ManagementBusinessConstruction Management
The study outlines a method for identifying critical success factors believed to predict successful project management. Experienced full‑time managers generated the critical success factors through their project experience. The authors identified ten interdependent factors forming a quasi‑sequential framework and developed a diagnostic instrument based on this model.
This paper describes a process used to determine critical success factors that are felt to be predictive of successful project management. Full time managers who have had experience with projects were used to generate critical success factors that they felt to be crucial to successful project implementation. Ten factors were discovered that relate well to previous theoretical formulations in the literature. In addition, these ten factors have been linked together in an interdependent quasi-sequential framework. This research has provided the basis for developing a behavioral instrument to be used as a diagnostic for assessing the status of any project as determined by the ten factor model.