With regard to success factors, (Cooke-Davies, 2002) lists twelve success factors of success that are
implemented by many national and multinational organizations. There are: Adequacy of company-wide education,
Maturity of an organization’s processes, Adequacy with which a visible risk register is maintained, Adequacy in
maintaining an up-to-date risk management plan, Adequacy of documentation of organizational responsibilities for
the project, Keeping the project as far as possible below a duration of 3 years, Allowing changes to the scope,
Maintaining the integrity of the performance measurement baseline, there being an effective benefits delivery and
management process, Portfolio and programme management practices, A suite of projects, a program and portfolio
metrics and An effective means of “learning from experience” on projects. However, as the (Cooke-Davies, 2002)
reports in his article, the human factor is omitted as a determinant of the extent of project success. This omission is
justified by two reasons: the research was focused on what people do and not the quality of their interactions and
decision-making and secondly, because there was no separation of human factors and process factors, the human
factor is therefore implicit. And as reported by (Nahod, Vukomanovi