The Relationship between Project Success and Project Efficiency

Project Management Journal - Tập 46 Số 1 - Trang 30-39 - 2015
Pedro Serrador1, J. Rodney Turner2
1Serrador Project Management, Toronto, Canada
2Skema Business School, Lille, France

Tóm tắt

Many researchers have suggested that meeting time, scope, and budget goals, sometimes called ‘project efficiency,’ is not the comprehensive measure of project success. Broader measures of success have been recommended; however, to date, nobody has determined empirically the relationship between efficiency and overall success or indeed shown whether efficiency is important at all to overall project success. Our aim in this article is to correct that omission. Through a survey of 1,386 projects we have shown that project efficiency correlates moderately strongly to overall project success (correlation of 0.6 and R2 of 0.36). Efficiency is shown through analysis to be neither the only aspect of project success nor an aspect of project success that can be ignored.

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