ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses three primary objectives that are the basic parameters for measuring project success or failure, including time, cost and performance. Other objectives have relevance to the success of an aviation project as it is experienced by a wide range of stakeholders, but time, cost and performance are the three primary objectives that will be uppermost in the mind of a dedicated project manager during the execution phases of a project. The chapter provides a case as an example of a project that is doomed to failure from its beginning owing to serious differences between planning, economics and politics. The rule for project success proposed by Hartman that a project is successful if it makes all stakeholders happy, although it is an admirable moral goal for any project manager, will be put to extreme test in an airport project of this size.
