Defining Success in Projects

• Autor(a) principal: de Farias Filho, José Rodrigues
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Outros Autores: Almeida, Norberto Oliveira
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Gestão e Projetos (GeP)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.uninove.br/gep/article/view/9405
• topic: Project Strategy; Project Management; Success

The Project Management Discipline has been widely used in the last years for companies aroundthe world and these companies have been investing large amounts on surveys, training andconsulting in order to get benefits for the organizations that need to create competitive advantage inthe high competitive Market and to achieve their business strategy goals. Studies from the majorworld authors show many ways to define success at the organizations. In Brazil, the BenchmarkingStudy in GP from the PMI Chapters in 2009, show most studied companies don’t have a process doassess whether they are achieving the expected business goals with their investments in ProjectManagement. This article goal is to demonstrate many ways to define success in project, which willfacilitate the process to assess whether the companies are achieving these expected goals. Themethodology used was a literature review, collecting publications, textbooks and documents fromsubject-matter-experts.