The strategic approach to project management is a new approach that has received more and more attention from business thinkers in the last decade. Having a strategic approach in the field of information technology projects requires managers to choose the right strategy in the first step of project management, taking into account several factors influencing the choice of strategy. Logical and adaptive approaches are the two dominant strategies in project management, each of which requires different tools, resources, and procedures. Despite the increase in investment in IT projects and the dependence of organizations on such technologies, still
No study has been conducted to assist IT managers in choosing the appropriate strategy for such projects. Therefore, the main purpose of this study is to identify the approach of selecting the appropriate strategy in the management of information technology projects. In order to achieve this goal, in the first stage, in order to identify the factors influencing the choice of IT project management strategy, after a comprehensive review of the literature in the relevant field, the opinions of experts in the focus group have been used. In the second stage, in order to validate the extracted factors, and in the third stage, in order to weight each of the factors in selecting the two dominant logical and comparative approaches, experts are surveyed using the survey method. In the developed methodology, the factors that influence the choice of strategy are: process factors, human factors, system related factors and contextual factors. The final strategy of IT project management is obtained as a range of logical strategy and adaptive strategy
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