Project Management Success Factors in Basque Companies

Project management discipline has undergone significant changes in the past decades (Hanisch and Wald in Project Management Journal 42(3):4–22, 2011). The project management influencing factors have been the subject of empirical studies. This paper examines the link between some of these factors and project success, through a survey with the participation of 121 project managers in the Basque Country in Northern Spain. The most important result of this study is the relevance of project manager skills and characteristics, and their influence on project success.