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

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dc.contributor.authorWinter, Robert
dc.contributor.authorRohner, Peter
dc.contributor.authorKiselev, Caroline
dc.date.accessioned2019-01-03T00:48:52Z
dc.date.available2019-01-03T00:48:52Z
dc.date.issued2019-01-08
dc.description.abstractFor 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.
dc.format.extent10 pages
dc.identifier.doi10.24251/HICSS.2019.768
dc.identifier.isbn978-0-9981331-2-6
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10125/60073
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofProceedings of the 52nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectPractice-based IS Research
dc.subjectOrganizational Systems and Technology
dc.subjectIT Project Management, IT Project Governance, IT Project Failure Analysis, IT Project Assessment, Large IT Projects
dc.titleMission Impossible? Exploring the Limits of Managing Large IT Projects and Ways to Cross the Line
dc.typeConference Paper
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