IT Project failure Factors and Six Sigma

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The technological world is constantly changing that is implying regular updates with the methodologies to work with the Information Technology (IT) projects. The customers come up with their specification and they pay for the projects, the companies have to meet those requirements. The factual details explain that projects mostly fail due to number of defects while in making of the projects. Motorola introduced the idea of Six Sigma that has gained instant popularity and many IT firm are following the applications in order to save their projects.

IT Project Failure Factors and Six Sigma

Introduction

Project management (PM) is an entire field that attempts to organize relocates numerous available resources in order to achieve the goals of the objectives. Failing to achieve the set targets tends to redo the whole project that appears to be quite costly and time consuming. Motorola introduced this approach of Six Sigma that possesses pre-defined parameters to have continuous quality control and debugging the drawbacks. The factors that are elaborated by many researchers tend to give an idea about how failures impact the overall efforts of project management.

Discussion

Six Sigma has been introduced by Motorola that follows a complete doctrine including non-stop efforts to attain sustainable and predictable end results. Failures need to be addressed and communicated with the team members. I believe that much of the work of the project management depends on appropriate communication among the team members. The analysis of the articles below implies that prompt decision making deals with timely change and thus manages change. Hoever, the project can be managed through Six Sigma because it keeps close check on the requirements and actual practices (Zhang, 2008, pp.59-74). Failures occur due to factors that have been discussed below.

Analysis

Contrast and Comparison

Article by Mir and Pinnington (2013, pp.1-13) says that despite uncountable effort of making project management successful by using various procedures, tools and systems projects still fail. The researchers have tried to elaborate a relationship between PM performance and possible success of the project in the working environment of UAE. The study implies that projects vary on sizes, their unique requirements and prevalent complications which should have success measuring criteria in accordance. There has to be conceptual frameworks to appraise the success. Teamwork effectiveness makes the approach efficient together with the identification of PM staff, leadership, performance, KPIs. The relationship among these variables should be profoundly explained and communicated.

Article by Moraes and Laurindo (2011, pp.15-23) believes to propagate a certain scale regarding ex-post evaluation associated to IT projects. These projects function as multidimensional performance projects. The researchers collected the responses of the users via questionnaire. The success rate of the IT projects is around 16% and 31% of them get failed or are abandoned. It is due to the deficient vision of project performance which is directly associated to meeting the actual objectives if time, cost and indeed quality. The comparison of this viewpoint with the above team effort one shows that teamwork ...