Success Factors for an Information Systems Projects Team Creating New Context

This paper aims to investigate the factors that influence cohesion and success of an IS project team. Based on the literature regarding project team success and IS, a complex framework has been adopted in order to develop the research model for the study. Consequently, the research model will incorporate variables increasing the stability and chance of success of the IS project team. The case study and the conclusions are based on the interpretation of the results of a survey and a number of semi-structured interviews with members of an IS project team that were and still are involved in many IS projects at the University of Craiova, between 1999 and 2008. Our research findings show that different approaches to IS project team members dictated by their different specializations (skills and competencies) create a new context of team complexity and team cognition, which might affect IS in different ways