Abstract
This paper is based on feedback provided to a previous paper presented at BAM 2023. Achieving project success is the most desired project endpoint for practitioners, organizations, and stakeholders to realize strategic goals. Yet there is no universal agreement amongst academics nor practitioners on its definition with a variety of different project success frameworks in existence. A multiplicity of project success models exist including the iron triangle, quadruple constraint, multidimensional, and more recently the 'Tesseract' types. However, current literature only seeks to create new models of project success with no work seeking to evaluate these different models. This article fills this knowledge gap. Through the analysis of a large scale survey dataset primarily aimed at project managers, we demonstrate that there is in fact empirical evidence for these four dimensions. This work also examines the effect of organisational and respondent characteristics on the perception of project success including years in the project profession, industrial sector, and self-identified level of organisational project management maturity.