A PRACTICAL LIST OF CRITERIA FOR EVALUATING CONSTRUCTION PROJECT SUCCESS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

Abstract

Project success is a difficult concept because of the project’s complexity and dynamic. It is discussed a long time by many researchers. Until now, there is no accepted universal definition of project success, but no one can disclaim the importance of evaluating project success, especially in construction. Project success is a foundation to manage and control the current project, plan and orient the future project. In this paper, a practical list of criteria for evaluating project success is discussed. The final proposed framework is the result of both academic and practical point of view, from the solid foundation of literature review to the actual completed project information and document collected. The final indexes and sub-indexes in this list had to satisfy three criteria, which are high capacity to collect information, high level of importance, and high degree of applicability to evaluate project success. To achieve this objective, two surveys were performed. The first survey collected information from twenty-eight completed projects to consider the capacity to collect necessary information to evaluate project success. The second survey gathered opinions from sixty-five respondents about the importance level and applicability level of each index and sub-index. From analysis results, seven sub-indexes were eliminated from the list. The final list of criteria included eleven indexes which were clearly described by forty six sub-indexes.