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Purpose - This study aims at evaluating the critical success factors in case of project based organizations. The paper examines critical success factors as well as the interrelationship between them so as to identify the most important parameter influencing project success.
Design/methodology/approach - It is based on a survey done in organizations based on project management across the country. It included public sector units as well as private sector firms. The study is based on response received from one hundred thirty seven firms involved in project management in one or another way.
Findings - The survey predicts project manager as more significant critical success factor followed by the project team. Communication in project team has been found as most critical success factor in project based enterprises. Also emotional quotient of project manager has been found as a critical success factor in this study.
Keywords: Project Success, Team, Project Manager, Critical Success/Failure Factors
Paper type: Research Paper
Introduction
Project Management is becoming major organizational commotion performed within organizations. More and more organizations are depending on project management to achieve operational excellence and achieve business growth. Achieving success in a project has become vital in the context of competition and decreasing margin. The studies aiming at organizational effectiveness have been at the core of organization theory in the recent years (kerzner, 1990). Earlier research on project success has identified the factors based on a general basis with all the industries taken together. Studies have been done on identifying tools and techniques being used in the project management and their merits and de-merit (Cooke-Davies 2002, Muller 2003, Fortune & White 2002, Hyvari 2006). A review of the literature finds that most of the studies have been done in the western world (Murphy, Baker and Fisher, 1974, Pinto and Slevin 1988, Gemuenden & Lechler 1997, Shehnar, Levy and Dvir 1997). It reveals that despite of large work in this area no definite set of factors have been agreed upon. It may be due to the organizational or cultural differences through the world. There is need of empirical study to identify the critical success factors on the basis of organization type and identify the relationship among the various variables. Earlier researches have not focused on the role of...