Do These Eight Things to Ensure Successful Delivery of Your Large IT Project

 

This presentation is based on eight recent Project Management Surveys including PMI, PwC, McKinsey and others.

While these eight elements of project success may be intuitively known to many Project Managers, the approach to addressing them may not be as common knowledge and definitely not common practice.

The presentation discusses the eight most important success factors for large technology-based projects, based on the results of the surveys (included in the reference slide).

For each element Uri describes practical proven approaches to address the challenge at hand, along with case stories to illustrate the concepts involved.

The eight elements to ensure successful project delivery are:

1. Engaged and experience Executive Sponsor

2. Competent project leadership team

3. Clear and achievable objectives, benefits, scope and approach

4. Comprehensive and realistic project plans

5. Aligned and engaged stakeholders

6. Well-resourced, experienced, and committed project team

7. Capable vendor with a proven solution and experienced team

8. Proven methodology with agile capabilities, scope management, quality control, financial management, and more.

This presentation is based on eight recent Project Management Surveys including PMI, PwC, McKinsey and others. While these eight elements of project success may be intuitively known to many Project Managers, the approach to addressing them may not be as common knowledge and definitely not common practice. The presentation discusses the eight most important success factors for large technology-based projects, based on the results of the surveys (included in the reference slide).