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Characterization of an Evaluation Success Model of an IS Project, Focused on Stakeholders

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Trends and Advances in Information Systems and Technologies (WorldCIST'18 2018)

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Typically, we measure the success of an Information Technology project through time, budget and quality. However, with the advance of years, we found that stakeholders have also something to say about success evaluation. Each stakeholder has an impact, its own interests and expectations about the project development. Therefore, what for some can be considered a success, for others can be considered a failure, because each one has a different perspective on the same project. This short paper proposes a flexible success evaluation model for an Information Technology project, called Success Breakdown Structure (SBS). In this model, the various stakeholders present in a project are presented, as well as their success assessment criteria over three different visions: after the completion of the project, after a few months and last, after a few years. From the obtained results, we can conclude that the evaluation of a project success is not concern of project managers only, but is transversal to all stakeholders.

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This work has been supported by COMPETE: POCI-01-0145-FEDER-007043 and FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia within the Project Scope: UID/CEC/00319/2013.

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  1. Information System Department, Algoritmi Center, Minho University, Campus de Azurem, Braga, Portugal

    Luís Barros & Pedro Ribeiro

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  1. Departamento de Engenharia Informática, Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

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  2. College of Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

    Hojjat Adeli

  3. DSI/EEUM, Universidade do Minho, Guimarães, Portugal

    Luís Paulo Reis

  4. DIMES, Università della Calabria, Arcavacata di Rende, Italy

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Barros, L., Ribeiro, P. (2018). Characterization of an Evaluation Success Model of an IS Project, Focused on Stakeholders. In: Rocha, Á., Adeli, H., Reis, L.P., Costanzo, S. (eds) Trends and Advances in Information Systems and Technologies. WorldCIST'18 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 745. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77703-0_87

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