Study: The effects of classical and agile project management techniques on project success

In cooperation with the two large German project management organizations GPM and PMI (Chapter Frankfurt and Munich) oose Innovative Informatik is conducting a study on the above topic. We aim to gain empirical evidence that link project success, applied project management techniques (both agile and classical) and the given conditions of a project.

This data will support project managers make sound decisions on which agile or classical techniques will help their projects the most in a given situation.

We invite all project managers and other persons in leading positions in a project (like architects, scrum masters) to participate. Answering the questionnaire will take around 60 minutes. Most questions will ask you to evaluate two past projects, one successful project the other less successful.

Participation is completely anonymous. First results of the study will be freely available around March 2009.

The questionnaire is available online at www.oose.de/pm_studie until January, 18. 2009.

Please note that the questionnaire is available only in German!  permalink