- top management
- project managers
- line managers
- members of project teams
- members of support teams
- strength of leadership
- careful planning
- delivering all the expected quality specifications
- maintaining personal relationships necessary for success
- achieving approval of all the key stakeholders
- project completion that is on time and within budget
- the ability to recognize and avoid the common reasons for project failure
- learning successful techniques by focusing on actual business cases
- acquiring a structured method of dealing with a wide variety of situations that might occur in the course of a project

