Analysis of Critical Success Factors

Abstract

Chapter Contents: This chapter analyzes the relevance, the phase specificity, as well as the level of influence of the identified CSF for OSD projects by means of an online survey with 103 representatives of German-speaking companies. Within the chapter, we first detail our research design (6.1 Research Design). Second, we provide company-, project-, and person-related information on the participants of the online survey (6.2 Research Context). Third, we present the analysis results of our online survey, hereby focusing on the relevance, the phase specificity, and the level of influence in regard to our list of 29 CSF (6.3 CSF Analysis). Finally, we close the chapter with a summary of our findings (6.4 Discussion).