Success of projects in different organizational conditions

As more companies implement projects to achieve their objectives, many of these companies are also using project management to best accomplish their goals. Despite this development, the literature lacks a clear view on what enables projects to succeed and what causes projects to fail. This article examines a survey on the factors critical to project success and failure, factors relating to different organizational conditions and project phases. In doing so, it reviews the literature on project success and discusses the field's gap in research on project success within organizational contexts and its lack of knowledge about different success factors for different project phases. It explains a study on the factors of project success and project failure, one that involved a 54-question survey administered in 2002 to 25 Finnish project managers, one that explored how organizations practice project management.