TY - GEN AU - Arias,Germán AU - Vilches Antao,Diego Gastón AU - Banchoff Tzancoff,Claudia Mariana AU - Harari,Ivana AU - Harari,Viviana AU - Iuliano,Pablo José TI - The 7 key factors to get successful results in the IT development projects KW - DESARROLLO DE SOFTWARE KW - CMMI CAPABILITY MATURITY MODEL INTEGRATION N1 - Formato de archivo: PDF. -- Este documento es producción intelectual de la Facultad de Informática - UNLP (Colección BIPA/Biblioteca); Procedia Technology, 5, pp. 199-207 N2 - This paper explores the key factors in which a project manager should focus on Software development projects in order to increase the probability of getting successful results. To define and rank these factors, we have analyzed the root causes of why these projects fail; we have also reviewed the software continuous improvement model CMMI and gathered the experience of different project managers throughout their professional career. For each ranked factor, the author describes the main aspects to take into account in order to guide the project managers in the best way to implement it UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.protcy.2012.09.022 ER -