Download or read book Project Success : Definitions and Measurement Techniques written by Jeffrey K. Pinto and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of project success is a topic often discussed researchers and practitioners, yet rarely do these professionals agree on the factors that distinguish a successful project from a failed endeavor. This article examines a systematic approach to gauging project success, one that proposes a more generalized and more widely accessible system of measuring success. It identifies the major characteristics shared by all projects and discusses the criteria that practitioners and researchers have traditionally used to gauge project success. It then discusses the factors used for measuring successful project implementation--technical validity, organizational validity, organizational effectiveness-- and the impact that these factors have on determining a project's success. It also examines the factors affecting project success in relation to projects (the internal measures of time, cost, performance) and clients (the external measures of use, satisfaction, effectiveness) and describes the challenges in assessing project success over time, over the course of the project's post-delivery life cycle. It additionally discusses measuring project success in relation to a measurement framework called Project Implementation Profile (PIP), a measure that uses the two subscales of project and client.