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Success critera vs. success factors
To have knowledge about and understand these concepts, as a basis for understanding different aspects of project success/failure.
It is the steering committee that has to establish the project success criteria, together with the project manager and other important stakeholders, for example the customer.
Examples of success criteria can be:
- Delivering on time (Before and on time = Success, 10% deviation = acceptable, More than 10 % deviation = failure).
- Obtaining the impact goal, for example to increase revenue in a specific amount of time, can use a similar scale of criteria.
Project success criteria usually differs to some extent between projects, due to for example the project’s complexity, scope, context and time span.
A carefully developed project plan, well managed (i.e. project planning), is generally known as a key success factor in every kind of project. Some other general success factors are: Teamwork, Knowledge and Skills in the subject area, and in project management.
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