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Mission Impossible? Exploring the Limits of Managing Large IT Projects and Ways to Cross the Line.

Journal
Proceedings of the 52th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
ISBN
978-0-9981331-2-6
Type
conference paper
Date Issued
2019
Author(s)
Winter, Robert  orcid-logo
Rohner, Peter  
Kiselev, Caroline  
Research Team
CC KEY, IWI1
Abstract (De)
For decades much effort has been made to improve project management capabilities. Still, the failure rate remains high, especially for large IT projects. Our postmortem analysis of 15 large IT projects of the Swiss Federal Administration, with an accumulated loss of one billion U.S. dollars, shows that while project management deficits account for some of the failures, project failure is primarily caused by poor project governance capabilities. Based on insights gained from the initial failure analysis, the Swiss Federal Government decided to assess all its large IT projects based on our co-designed framework. Meanwhile, also private companies have assessed IT projects applying our framework. As a consequence, valuable discussions and measures have been initiated and sporadically projects were stopped. The data gained by these assessments will allow to identify patterns that promise to be a reference for governance actors and bodies what information to ask for, when to intervene, and how.
Language
English
Keywords
Programme Projekte Steuerung Governance Projekterfolg Misserfolg Kontextfaktoren Managementkomponenten IT öffentlicher Sektor
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
HSG Profile Area
SoM - Business Innovation
Refereed
Yes
Official URL
https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10125/60073/0633.pdf
URL
https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/99727
Subject(s)

information managemen...

business studies

Division(s)

IWI - Institute of In...

Eprints ID
255175
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