Project success in Slovenian companies

Abstract

This paper has a two-fold purpose. First we want to introduce the project success concept in general. The concept of project success evolved in the last 50 years. The critical success factors for measuring project success have also changed. All these facts mean that it is very difficult to make unbiased decision on whether the project has been successful or not. In the second part of the paper we present the results of the survey research that we conducted among Slovenian companies in the years 2010 and 2011. We were keen to find out how are they prepared to implement projects in their environment. In the research we have focused on several project types (area, aim, novelty, importance) in various business environments (industry, size) and determined the success level of projects regarding different factors. This paper focuses mostly on project success of implementing projects in general.