An assessment of related parameters affecting on success and failures of national IT projects: Case study of Iran

Author

Mohammadi, S. ; Zare-Hoseini, S. ; Jahanshahi, H.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Ind. Eng., Univ. of KNTU, Tehran

fYear

2008

fDate

21-24 Sept. 2008

Firstpage

629

Lastpage

634

Abstract

Emergence of Information technology and its rapid progress hugely influence every aspect of human life in the world; hence IT projects have a particular importance in different countries and organizations implementing IT projects have major role in the matter. Success or failure in an IT project depends on several internal or external factors. In this study, these factors and criteria are examined and determined for a nation-wide IT projects in Iran as a case study. A survey on the performed national IT projects in this case study enables us to analyze the drawbacks and advantages of the process and handling IT projects. Consequently it paves the way to reduce the failure rates of the IT projects in Iran.

Keywords

information technology; organisational aspects; project management; software management; IT projects failure; IT projects success; Iran; information technology; Certification; Collaboration; Contracts; Humans; Industrial engineering; Information technology; Performance analysis; Project management; Technological innovation; Teleworking; IT project; failure; success;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Management of Innovation and Technology, 2008. ICMIT 2008. 4th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Bangkok

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2329-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2330-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMIT.2008.4654438

Filename

4654438