Impact of Project Attributes on Project Management Strategies - A Context of G2C e-Government in India

The extant literature on management of e-Government projects discusses success factors in detail. However, it is observed that the contingency aspects of management of these projects have not been given sufficient attention. The classification of e-Government projects based on specific project attributes is an area where the current understanding is rather inadequate. The relationship between certain eGovernment project attributes and different management strategies has also not been explored adequately. In this paper, we examine the impact of two important project attributes on certain important aspects of project management. This paper employs cases of e-Government projects to demonstrate the framework so developed. A classification of such projects based on the mandatory/optional nature of concerned service and the mandatory/optional nature of intermediaries - two important project attributes - has been proposed. We have also demonstrated how this classification can act as a handle for deciding on certain important aspects of project management.

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