IDENTIFIERS *Project Management

The purpose of this study was to determine the relative importance of six criteria of project success and to develop a composite priterion of educational project success. Criteria considered were schedule, cost, quality/performance, follow-onwork, spin-of benefits, customer/client satisfaction, and overall project success. Two hundred and six, people associate i with a sample of 146 educational projects first ranked the criteria and then rated their own projects accordingly. A number of diagrams graphically present the relative importince of the various criteria'as perceived by different groups of respondents. Findings of the study shoved that achieving project objectives was considered most important and meeting time and cost constraints was considered rather unimportant in determininq the.success'of projects. A copy of the survey instrument used to gather data.for-t'e study is included in th