Option #1: Stakeholder Influence on Project Outcomes
Search the Internet, or any specific websites, and scan IT industry magazines to find an example
of an IT project that had problems due to organizational issues. summarizing the key
stakeholders for the project and how they influenced the outcome.
Solution
The various key stackholders of the IT project and their influnces towards project outcome is
described below:
1. Customer of Project: Is the main stack holder of the project, customer is someone for whom
we are developing the project
2. Project Team Members: They are also the stackholders of the project, they help in the creation
of the project.
3. Project Top Management: Is the leader of project team, he makes the project related decision
on which project team works.
4. Project Testers: Also plays a vital role in project, thus a key stackholders, They help in testing
the project functionality.
Examples of the cases where information technology projects fails due to organizational issues
are given below:
i) Failure of HealthMatch Project: This project started in year 2002. Its started with the budget of
over $13 million. This project basically deals in following three departments:
1) Health care systems
2) The employee work flow
3) Portal for client
In the very next year in 2003, during audit its found that the estimated income is not matching
with the actual income due to various organizational changes as well as disputes. So ultimately
this project fails.
ii) Failure of SAP Software: In year 2007, Los Angeles Unified School District invested around
over $90 million on the SAP software, that is replacing their old system. The SAP software
system was prepared by organization named as deloitte. There are various reasons for the failure
of the SAP project. The various reasons were:
1) The old system itself having some conflicting and wrong data, that leads to wrong data in
SAP software.
2) Employess are less prepaired to used the latest SAP system.
3) Lack of training amond the employees for the SAP software.
4) There were no valid policy for the data migration between old system to new SAP system.
Top Management Support successful IT Projects.
Top management of any organization plays a vital role in project success, They are the one who
communicate with customers and take customer requirement, they on their own ends negotiate
with customers regarding project cost, its deadlines and about functionality needed. They are the
one\'s who clearify all the project details before the actual exection of the project. Top
management also helps in providing the resources required at various levels of the projects. The
quality resources provided by the top management is the key of sucessful IT Project, because
resources are the basic building blocks of a successful project.
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1. Option #1: Stakeholder Influence on Project Outcomes
Search the Internet, or any specific websites, and scan IT industry magazines to find an example
of an IT project that had problems due to organizational issues. summarizing the key
stakeholders for the project and how they influenced the outcome.
Solution
The various key stackholders of the IT project and their influnces towards project outcome is
described below:
1. Customer of Project: Is the main stack holder of the project, customer is someone for whom
we are developing the project
2. Project Team Members: They are also the stackholders of the project, they help in the creation
of the project.
3. Project Top Management: Is the leader of project team, he makes the project related decision
on which project team works.
4. Project Testers: Also plays a vital role in project, thus a key stackholders, They help in testing
the project functionality.
Examples of the cases where information technology projects fails due to organizational issues
are given below:
i) Failure of HealthMatch Project: This project started in year 2002. Its started with the budget of
over $13 million. This project basically deals in following three departments:
1) Health care systems
2) The employee work flow
3) Portal for client
In the very next year in 2003, during audit its found that the estimated income is not matching
with the actual income due to various organizational changes as well as disputes. So ultimately
this project fails.
ii) Failure of SAP Software: In year 2007, Los Angeles Unified School District invested around
over $90 million on the SAP software, that is replacing their old system. The SAP software
system was prepared by organization named as deloitte. There are various reasons for the failure
of the SAP project. The various reasons were:
1) The old system itself having some conflicting and wrong data, that leads to wrong data in
SAP software.
2) Employess are less prepaired to used the latest SAP system.
2. 3) Lack of training amond the employees for the SAP software.
4) There were no valid policy for the data migration between old system to new SAP system.
Top Management Support successful IT Projects.
Top management of any organization plays a vital role in project success, They are the one who
communicate with customers and take customer requirement, they on their own ends negotiate
with customers regarding project cost, its deadlines and about functionality needed. They are the
one's who clearify all the project details before the actual exection of the project. Top
management also helps in providing the resources required at various levels of the projects. The
quality resources provided by the top management is the key of sucessful IT Project, because
resources are the basic building blocks of a successful project
