Grounding Information Technology Project Critical Success Factors Within the Organization

Applying Rough Sets
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Part of the Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing book series (AI&KP)

Abstract

This chapter presents the idea of employing Rough Set Theory to assess risk and assist in reducing the complexity of managing IT-projects. There are many generic lists of critical success factors. Initially, these factors should be grounded within the specific organization. Then an early warning system, proposed here, may be employed based upon Rough Set Theory to assess the risk of specific IT-projects. The identification of risk will lead the project manager to focus on specific issues that must be resolved in order to contribute to the success of the project. We also show how DRSA-Dominance based Rough Set Approach can be utilized to analyze IT-projects.

Keywords

Critical success factors Information technology Project management Rough set theory Grounded theory Narrative inquiry 
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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Faculty of ManagementUniversity of LethbridgeLethbridgeCanada
  2. 2.Department of Computer Science and MathematicsMunich University of Applied SciencesMunichGermany

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