Why i3d3?
It is often said that sponsors no longer see projects delivered on time, within budget, as specified and with no surprises as sufficient evidence of success. Rather, what they really want is projects that are aligned with their strategic stakeholder objectives, providing a range of financial, social, ethical and environmental benefits that are fully realized as anticipated. This thinking is an expansion of project delivery success (with a focus on implementation) to project success (comprising initiation, implementation and influence). Projects are merely vehicles of change, and project managers as change-agents have a vested interest in successful outcomes.
The problem is that contribution to the wider definition of success is achievable only if project managers are involved early during the initiation phase (design) and stay connected during the influence phase (delight), which is not common.
The i3d3 model is an attempt to enable project managers to measure and compare the wider success of their projects. It is agnostic to project type, size, location or date. If you need help with implementing i3d3 into your organization, just reach out.
The following fishbone diagram gives an overview of how an i3d3 evaluation is organized. It uses the Snyder Evaluation Process as the basic structure representing resources, activities, immediate effects, targets and ideals.
If you would like to use Qualtrics software to collect end-user opinions for the project influence phase of i3d3, then the following survey form might be useful to you. It can be downloaded from this site and imported into Qualtrics. You then only need to enter the name of the project and then publish it and share its unique URL to a sample population of end-users.
