Project management for information system development

Abstract

Nowadays, with the development of the information and communication technology, information systems have been developing rapidly. More and more software companies choose to develop the information system to be their main business. They want to increase their business profits by developing the information system. However, the failure rate of developing information system has been high during these years. The purpose of the thesis is to discover how to use project management knowledge to improve the success rate of information system development in an organization.

The thesis covers a literature review and a practical case study. The literature review part is theoretical material about project management. In this theoretical part, I will discuss about the definition of project management and the nature of project management. The main references for there theories are from the internet. In this paper, the lifecycles of project management will be discussed.

In the practical part of this thesis, there is one case of using project management to develop a supply chain system. In this case, I will analyse their project process and find out what makes this project team achieve success.