PROJECT MANAGEMENT
INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT

ANSWER-1
In the article “The ‘‘real’’ success factors on projects” Cooke-Davies mentions 12 factors for ensuring the success of a project. Cooke-Davies differentiates between project success and project management success. He distinguishes success criteria which he describes as the benchmark to gauge success or failure and success factors which are management inputs that lead to project successes. In addition, he puts light on the existence of a relationship between project management and operations management before showing us how a successful project aligns with corporate success.
On the other hand the NTCP is a part of adaptive project management approach that helps managers classify complex projects according to four dimensions namely novelty, technology, complexity, and pace. As per Cooke-Davies, project failure happens due to inadequate knowledge on the 12 critical factors while the NTCP model shows that whenever a project fails, there is always a mismatch between the risk profile of that project and the management style used to tackle it. Unlike Cooke-Davies, the diamond model goes beyond the Iron triangle of cost, time and quality and assigns the responsibility of attaining the metrics for project success solely on the manager thereby professing a unique style of management as required by that project. So at the start a manager must ask "What are the major sources of complexity and risk on this project?" and “What are the explicit steps or strategies to manage them?” Even having knowledge of all the risks and integrity of performance as suggested by Cooke-Davies , the project may not be a success as per Shenhar and Dvir unless we thoroughly understand the risks, uncertainties and then build the right managerial type approach. So the approach by Cooke-Davies and NTCP differs as the latter provides a robust