Stop playing games! : transactional analysis and IT leadership

Investigations into the comparative successes of some projects over others have led to incremental understanding of the technical, methodological, and sociological dimensions of IT project management [16]. For example, when the technical dimension of two projects is similar (say, they both use Java and SQL Server) and still the projects end up differently, then methodology is often a factor. However, what is intriguing is when two projects with similar technologies and methodologies end up at different ends of the success spectrum. Obviously, the answer lies beyond technology and methodology