What Makes a System Development Project Successful? New Answers from a Project Manager’s Perspective

What does it take for a project to be successful? This question has been asked several times in the past two decades, as it rightly should. We need to continually assess what factors help contribute to a successful project, and do so from a variety of perspectives. This research-in-progress paper presents a review of project management success factors that have been identified over the past two decades and reports on the preliminary results of a recent survey of project managers throughout the United States and abroad who present their current perspective on what is needed for a project to be completed successfully