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Anupam India

How do you measure project success & project failure?

Posted: Oct 20, 2016 8:16 AM

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Frank Calberg Frank Calberg Services Zürich, Switzerland

Building on what not least Sergio, Visswanathan, Patrick and Vincent competently expressed, I come to think of purpose. To what extent does the project help the company live its purpose even better. Research on the topic: https://www.slideshare.net/frankcalberg/wh...company-purpose

Posted: Oct 20, 2017 4:57 AM

Michael Delaney Partner| Delaney Management LLC West Chester, Pa, United States

I agree that success is how well the project achieves the objectives but we must make sure we did a good job of defining the objectives. You can have a well performing project which achieves all the objectives but leaves a customer dissatisfied with the end result.

Posted: Oct 21, 2017 12:24 AM

Brenda Phillips Project Manager| Verizon Sanford, Fl, United States

Nov 21, 2016 3:22 AM

Replying to Visswanathan KKN

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I would define the success as the extent to which the project outcomes meet the objectives defined at the beginning of the project within the defined constraints.

It may be making a big profit for an organization and for another organization success may mean making a customer happy even if they made some monetary loss in the project. But, these have to be defined at the beginning. I think, the measurement of success should not be limited to time, cost and scope objectives.

Agreed. Success should clearly be defined at the beginning. Specificity is important. Defining how success will be measured will avoid ambiguity.

Posted: Oct 22, 2017 7:36 AM

William Meller IT Project, Program & Portfolio Manager| Polestar Gothenburg, Sweden

I see a lot of good point of my friends, but just to add some point here, I like to say one word: Benefits.

Posted: Oct 22, 2017 4:04 PM

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