Cutting Edge ISIT PM Research

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Cutting Edge IS/IT PM Research

• Risk Factors Associated with Project
  Failure/Success

Tim Kloppenborg, PMP John Stemmer Debbie Tesch
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IS/IT PM Research 1999 to 2001

• Research study designed to extract project
  management information useful to the practice of
  the profession from recent research literature in
  the information systems and information
  technology (IS/IT) fields.
• Results led to eight published lessons learned in
  IS/IT PM research

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Examination of Risk Factors

• Fairley, R.E., and Willshire, M.J. Why the Vasa
  Sank 10 Problems and Some Antidotes for Software
  Projects, IEEE Software, March/April 2003, pp.
  18-25
• Oz, E. and Sosik, J. Why Information Systems
  Projects are Abandoned A leadership and
  communication theory and exploratory study,
  Journal of Computer Information Systems, Fall
  2000, Vol 41, Issue 1, pp. 66-78
• Schmidt, R., Lyytinen, K., Keil, M., and Cule,
  P. Identifying Software Project Risks An
  International Delphi Study, Journal of Management
  Information Systems, Spring 2001, Vol 17, No 4,
  pp. 5-36

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Categories of Risk

• Corporate Management
• Sponsorship/Ownership
• Relationship Management
• Project Management
• Scope
• Requirements
• Funding and Scheduling
• Personnel and Staffing
• Miscellaneous