Används både formativ och summativ utvärdering i ett projekt?

Sammanfattning: In companies today, it is becoming more and more common for employees to work in a project based environment, as a result many companies have developed their own project models. Companies with a well developed product culture are striving to improve their existing models, and businesses relatively new in the marketplace are aiming to reach a high level of maturity as well as reach high levels of efficiency in the shortest time possible. As the number of mature and efficient companies with well developed project model increase, so does the level of competition in the market. Since a well developed project model often leads to a more efficient and accurate way of carrying out the project, which in turn leads to shorter delivery time towards the client. This is crucial as time is one of the most valuable parameters of competition in today’s business environment. As companies become more efficient in executing projects they are able to take on additional projects simultaneously, this means that you cannot afford to make the same mistake more than once, as it is unjustifiably expensive in time and money as well as labor. One way of avoiding the problem of repeating the same mistakes is to keep track of what went wrong on previous projects; one way of doing this is through evaluation, through project evaluation issues can be documented and analyzed consequently minimizing the possibility of repeated mistakes. Most people in key business positions are in agreement that evaluation is an effective way to analyze and develop their project models. However is evaluation a natural part of the project or is it something that is conducted merely due to some type of coercion, such as a request from the client. The purpose of this thesis is to examine if these evaluations are being carried out. After evaluating the completed interviews it becomes evident that the responses are unanimous, these responses demonstrate that both formative and summative evaluations are important parts of a project, however they find formative evaluations harder to implement into daily activities.