Explanations for budget and schedule overrun revisited – a configurational perspective on IT projects

Presenter Information

Oliver Krancher, IT University of CopenhagenFollow
Christian Østergaard Madsen, IT University of CopenhagenFollow
Adam Alami, Aalborg UniversityFollow
Connie Petersson Petersson, IT University of CopenhagenFollow

Paper Number

2486

Paper Type

Complete

Description

Although the existing literature portrays information technology projects as complex, dynamic, socio-technical endeavors, research on cost and schedule performance mostly focuses on single factors in isolation. In this paper, we use a configurational approach to overcome this disconnect. We collected interview and objective data from 30 IT projects and conducted a qualitative comparative analysis to examine how configurations of project conditions relate to cost and schedule adherence. Our analysis shows four configurations associated with budget or schedule adherence: Prestigious feedback-based projects, lucky projects, disciplined projects, and team-based projects. We discuss the implications of these results for information technology project management research and practice.

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11-PM

Recommended Citation

Krancher, Oliver; Østergaard Madsen, Christian; Alami, Adam; and Petersson, Connie Petersson, "Explanations for budget and schedule overrun revisited – a configurational perspective on IT projects" (2022). ICIS 2022 Proceedings. 11.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2022/is_design/is_design/11