February 12 , 2008

Dear Sir:

I am a final year student reading Computing and Management at Loughborough University, UK, and I am currently working on my dissertation looking into IT Project success rates. During my research,
I have been reading your website and I have found it most useful.

My research aims to discover links between success and the various attributes of the project including the number of people involved, the complexity and if outsourcing is used. The results will then be analyzed for patterns in the relationships between this attributes which will lead to a series of recommendations that project managers can use to improve the likelihood of success for their projects.

The reason that I am writing to you is to ask if you would mind helping me with my primary research. I have an online questionnaire designed for Project Managers to complete with details of their most recent 3 projects since January 2005 and another questionnaire for anyone involved in IT projects.

Would you mind mentioning this on your website? In return, both yourself and anyone who completes the questionnaire would be entitled to an electronic copy of the report and results once the study is complete at the end of May 2008 which should prove to contain very valuable information.

IT Project Managers - http://www.questionpro.com/akira/TakeSurvey?id=816578

Anyone involved in an IT project http://www.questionpro.com/akira/TakeSurvey?id=889253

Please get in touch if you have any questions.

Kind regards,

Matthew Miller
Computer Science Department
Loughborough University
M.G.Miller-04@student.lboro.ac.uk

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More Help Sought for Research on IT Projects

February 20 , 2008

Hello,

I was wondering whether you could be of help, I am writing a dissertation on why IT projects lead to failure and the link between different Project management techniques, I need people who have been involved with any IT project regardless of level to fill it in, I am looking to see which methodologies are best suited to different Type's of projects and the reasons behind most successful and failed projects...if you could help that would be great! The Dissertation is for a final year project...I would be happy to send you a copy when the final document is written, as a thank you for the support; this would be around the 6th May.

I was wondering whether it would be possible to have the link displayed in the forum.  Any help would be great.

Thank you for your time

I look forward to hearing from you

Gemma Smith
Loughborough University, UK
Computer science
http://www.my3q.com/home2/197/gemma_smith/64101.phtml