Critical Success Factors of Mobile Application Development Projects: A Qualitative Study

This study seeks to identify the critical success factors of teams in the application-development project. To achieve this goal, a qualitative approach and content analysis was utilized. Semi-structured interviews with 14 developers and experts was performed for data collection. A systematic review...

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Main Authors: Hamza Khastar, Kamran Abdollahi
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Language:English
Published: University of Tehran 2016-07-01
Series:Journal of Information Technology Management
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Online Access:https://jitm.ut.ac.ir/article_57232_6bbddfe0a4894bd85b0f9505ac45c072.pdf
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description This study seeks to identify the critical success factors of teams in the application-development project. To achieve this goal, a qualitative approach and content analysis was utilized. Semi-structured interviews with 14 developers and experts was performed for data collection. A systematic review of previous research shows that after 9 critical success factors. With the analysis interviews, the CSf's raised to 12; including user experience, strategy and project management, support and promotion, business models, planning and goal setting, financial and budgeting, marketing and customer needs, infrastructure, technical issues and design, contextual factors, teamwork and staffing. The results show that the customer experience, teamwork and contextual factors are core categories in the research paradigm model.
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spelling doaj-art-3cc3be93b05a4b44a838919bae6962da2025-08-20T01:51:06ZengUniversity of TehranJournal of Information Technology Management2008-58932423-50592016-07-018227329410.22059/jitm.2016.5723257232Critical Success Factors of Mobile Application Development Projects: A Qualitative StudyHamza Khastar0Kamran Abdollahi1Assistant Prof., Faculty of Management, Kharazmi University, Tehran, IranMSc. In Information Technology Management, Kharazmi University, Tehran, IranThis study seeks to identify the critical success factors of teams in the application-development project. To achieve this goal, a qualitative approach and content analysis was utilized. Semi-structured interviews with 14 developers and experts was performed for data collection. A systematic review of previous research shows that after 9 critical success factors. With the analysis interviews, the CSf's raised to 12; including user experience, strategy and project management, support and promotion, business models, planning and goal setting, financial and budgeting, marketing and customer needs, infrastructure, technical issues and design, contextual factors, teamwork and staffing. The results show that the customer experience, teamwork and contextual factors are core categories in the research paradigm model.https://jitm.ut.ac.ir/article_57232_6bbddfe0a4894bd85b0f9505ac45c072.pdfCritical Success FactorsApplicationSoftware developmentProject Fail
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