Project Success Criteria
There cannot be a project without its success criteria. However, when we observe discussions on various online forums or conferences, many project professionals focus on schedule, cost, and quality. Numerous publications on project management continue to pivot around the triangle of schedule, cost, and quality. Is this so? Has the nature of projects not changed over the past fifty-odd years since project management became a discipline? Consider these projects. Development of a mobile app for the New Year. Drug development for a life-threatening disease. Highway infrastructure project in Amazon. Implementing GDPR on a technology project. Building a school for a charitable trust. On a close review of the above projects, does one still feel that the success criterion is either schedule, cost, or quality? The first project would be successful only if delivered before Dec 31st – hence schedule would be the key success criterion. However, the same may not be true about drug development. Of c...