Project Manager Role in Project Management Success

Identifying and evaluating individual factors of project manager contributing to project success in project-based organizations

In recent years, The importance key success factors  has led organizations to focus more on these factors. project management is one of the factors greatly affecting project success. Having a qualified and competent project manager is the first step to actual project success. In this study, the individual factors and important competencies of the project manager have been investigated. The sta...

Project Manager Leadership Role in Improving Project Performance

role in project success is not addressed in project management literature. The purpose of this article is to address this gray area. In this article our focus is to identify a set of people-related project performance factors, and to understand how these factors interact with one another. Using these inter-relationships, we develop a model to analyze the project manager’s role in improving proj...

Information Technology Project Management and Project Success

One of the most important issues for organizations and information technology professionals is the success of information technology (IT) projects. This study reviews a survey of financial executives and examines their views on aspects of project management and project success. First, it was found that overall systems development projects are viewed as being successful by organizations. Next, a...

Project Management: Success Factors

The role of project management offices (PMOs) in IS project success and management satisfaction

John Ward is Emeritus Professor at Cranfield University, School of Management. He was previously Professor of Strategic Information Systems and Director of the Information Systems Research Centre. Prior to joining Cranfield, he worked in industry for 15 years and continues to be a consultant to a number of major organizations. As well as publishing many papers and articles, he is co-author of t...