An organization for successful project management

Successful software development requires that the product be accepted, that schedules are met, and that costs are acceptable. The number of software development efforts that do not meet one or more of these criteria is large. Conversely, there are many examples of successful development. The total number and variety of considerations that affect the probability of success is so large as to be beyond the scope of any individual paper. There is one important element of software development that appears to have been somewhat overlooked, however, and is the subject of this paper.