Success factors of project management: the critical few-an empirical investigation

During recent years, project management has been firmly established as a concept for organizing extraordinary, innovative as well as strategic endeavors. However, still many of these projects fail. What are the recommendations that research can provide to practising managers? This paper aims to provide general recommendations regarding project management. This effort is based on the assumption that the project success depends on a relatively small number of variables-the so-called success factors.