Abstract
M.Ing. (Engineering Management)
Organizations are increasingly using project management practices as their way of arranging work to achieve the objectives set within their organisation, and these enforces organisations to view success as the combination of both project management success and projects. Ever since project management has been acknowledged as an effective and competent method of managing projects, almost all kinds of organizations, such as municipalities, engineering companies, Government, Industries, construction, etc., have implemented project management as a tool to reduce project delay and improve project success within their organizations.
It is well known and common belief, that a project failure is when the project did not satisfy or meet the cost, time and quality requirement of an organization. While the word “success” is not always easily measured and defined due to different meanings from different people. Therefore this research attempts to establish and understand the literature review based on project success, the main aim is to understand the meaning of project success in depth. The second objective is to determine the critical success factors that influence project success in both construction and infrastructural projects.
Project management was initiated in the early 1950s by military; however, it embedded from the early 19th century. Since then project management has been known as a distinct and advanced notion of management used to drive the goals and objectives of an organization, as well as agendas at economic development. The initial motivation was based on the benefits that project management offer in co-ordinating and allocating work to different departments and professions, organizing jobs around different projects and ensuring the critical necessity for communication. Since then project management has been recognized as an effective and competent method to handle projects.
However, even though project management has been recognized as a competent and efficient method to facilitate projects that do not rule out the failure of projects. According to literature reviews, it is clearly recognized that there are different kinds of projects with different demands, different characteristics and different needs upon them. This research indicates that there are many reasons why a project fails in the infrastructure projects and construction.
Research data was collected in the form of questionnaires, data gathered from a literature reviews was used to formulate the basis of developing the research questionnaire which was distributed and completed by the engineers, project managers, consultants and personnel working within infrastructural project across South Africa...