Do stakeholders affect the success of system development projects? Do stakeholders affect the success of system development projects?

Table of Contents

1. Introduction………………………………………………………………..2 2. Information Systems Methodologies……………………………………2 3. Stakeholder Identification………………………………………………..4 4. Discussion…………………………………………………………………5 5. Conclusion…………………………………………………………………7

1. Introduction
The UK Academy for Information Systems (www.ukais.org) describes information systems as “the means by which organizations and people, using information technologies, gather, process, store, use and disseminate information”. However, managing projects to implement information systems continues to be a challenge for organisations (Benko and McFarlan, 2003). Even though companies invest billions in Information Systems projects (PMI), managing these projects is difficult (Gibbs, 1994). The Standish Group CHAOS research summarised that in 2008 less than a third of information projects were considered to be successful and the KPMG survey (2002) suggests that the culpable for the failure is not only the project manager, but everyone involved in the project. While some academics were focused on identifying the most significant methodologies (Wynekoop and Russo, 1997) which will help the system developers to better plan and manage the information systems projects, others started considering the “peopleware” concept when examining the effectiveness of information systems projects (Guinan et al., 1998; Wallace et al., 2004). The purpose of this paper is to examine the benefits and challenges of various stakeholders involved in the information systems development projects and how can may affect the success of the project. First, the paper reviews the information system development methodologies and identifies their challenges. The paper follows