Business Process Alignment for Successful IT Project Management

Companies invest significant sums of money for major §IT projects, yet success remains limited. Despite an §abundance of IT Project Management (ITPM) resources, §such as the PMI Body of Knowledge, IT standards and §governance, a large percentage of IT projects §continue to fail and ultimately get scrapped.§§The research approach involved the development of a §systematic and holistic ITPM conceptual solution, §which considers critical project management success §factors including Business Process and IT §Alignments, System Design, IT Architectural §Foundations, Organizational Dynamics, IT Governance §and Standards, and Software Vendor Responsiveness. §The solution provides a method to evaluate the §various critical success factors of a project, and §their alignment with each other. §§The contribution of this research is summarized in §terms of the design and development of the §conceptual solution; and the development of a §systematic methodology for successfully implementing §the conceptual solution. This methodolog provides an §increased potential for project success, and a §project leader would be alerted of problems §throughout the life of the project.