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Critical Success Factors & Project Management
A Software Services Company
The Yash Birla Group 7
the project constraints are Critical Success Factors and
which are Political Success Factors, and then deciding
whether to satisfy the Political Success Factor. The
business analyst can lend invaluable assistance to the
project manager in managing expectations by identifying
the political success factors as early as they are voiced or
suggested.
Various researchers have studied different
types of projects and identified the Critical Success
Factors (CSF) needed for successful project
implementation. One of the main Critical Success Factors
associated with project success is top management
support or involvement. Many of the studies even revealed
that top management involvement “is a main ingredient in
the recipe of project success”. In addition, in the survey
conducted by White and Fortune to determine the current
practice in project management, support of top
management ranked 3rd out of 23 critical factors listed.
Top management support is essential in ensuring project
success. Following the research done by Offer it has
concluded that top management support has been
recognized to have positive impact on project success.
However, senior manager should be mindful in providing
their support and involvement. They should not overstep
and implement their own agenda; otherwise, this might
distress the project and project manager. Therefore, it
gives rise to following hypothesis.
Leadership of project manager is
the key success factor for managing
project in an organization
- Abhinav Sabharwal
Business Analyst
Mumbai
Critical Success Factors (CSFs) are those
outcomes that the project needs to deliver so that
everyone appraising the project will agree that it is
successful, at least in terms of delivery. (A critical success
factor may be the time of delivery.) We define the primary
critical success factors by defining the real problem, the
vision, and the acceptance criteria.
There are also those aspects of the project that
are assessed by individuals or groups within the
stakeholder community. These individual stakeholder
expectations, which may be concerned with a part of the
outcome, how the product is developed, or even how the
project is executed, will lead the affected stakeholder to
consider the project less than successful regardless of the
overall success of the deliverable. These aspects are
called Political Success Factors (PSFs). You can solve the
problem perfectly well without satisfying these factors,
however, the stakeholder will not deem the result
successful in his or her eyes.
While you must meet all Critical Success
Factors as a business analyst or project manager, Political
Success Factors are optional, usually based on the
political clout of the individual voicing that factor.
The project manager has two challenges
regarding political success factors: determining which of
Ref: Key Success Factors for Managing ProjectsNader Sh. Kandelousi, Ooi. J., Abdollahi. A
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