Your company’s executives are seriously considering the idea of implementing a new supply-chain application that could give your organization a strategic edge but do not want to see it crippled like other poorly executed projects.

• If the CEO has asked you to prepare a memo describing industry standards for improving project management, what are the critical success factors that you will discuss in the memo and why?
• How does project management fit into the big picture of the systems development life cycle (SDLC) framework for this project?
• Do you think that the triple constraints are a necessary evil? Why or why not?