Journal of Management Information Systems / Winter 2007–8, Vol. 24, No. 3, pp. 9–44. © 2008 M.E. Sharpe, Inc. 0742–1222 / 2008 $9.50 + 0.00. DOI 10.2753/MIS0742-1222240301 A Temporal Model of Information Technology Project Performance ANDREW GEMINO, BLAIZE HORNER REICH, AND CHRIS SAUER ANDREW GEMINO is an Associate Professor in the Management Information Systems area in the Faculty of Business Administration at Simon Fraser University (SFU). His degrees include an M.A. in Economics and an MBA from SFU and a Ph.D. in Management Information Systems from the University of British Columbia. His research interests focus on information technology project management and the ef- fective communication of information system requirements. His research is currently funded by the Natural Sciences Research Council (NSERC) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada. A former director of the IT Project Management Program at SFU, he is vice president of the AIS Special Interest Group in System Analysis and Design (SIGSAND) and a member of the Surgeon Information System Working Group for the Provincial Surgical Oncology Council affiliated with the British Columbia Cancer Agency. BLAIZE HORNER REICH is a Professor in the Management Information Systems area of the Faculty of Business Administration, Simon Fraser University. Before taking graduate degrees at the University of British Columbia, Dr. Reich spent more than a decade as an IT practitioner and management consultant, specializing in information management and strategic planning. She is a founding member of the CIO Association of British Columbia and has served on the boards of several professional organiza- tions, including the Canadian Association of Management Consultants and the CIO Council of the Conference Board of Canada. She is currently a corporate director of two companies. Dr. Reich has two principal streams of research—governance of the IT function and IT project management. Her research has been published in several journals, including Information Systems Research, Journal of Management Information Systems, MIS Quarterly, and Project Management Journal. She previously served as an associate editor of MIS Quarterly and currently serves on the editorial boards of Project Management Journal and Journal of Information Systems. CHRIS SAUER is a Fellow in Information Management at the Saïd Business School and a Fellow of Templeton College, Oxford University. He works principally in execu- tive education for government and private-sector clients. Previously, he was a senior researcher in the Fujitsu Centre at the Australian Graduate School of Management in Sydney. He is a graduate of Oxford University and the University of Western Aus- tralia. His core research interests include the management of IT-based organizational transformation; project management; and the transfer, diffusion, and adoption of IT. His work has been published in a range of journals, including Sloan Management Review, Communications of the ACM, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, and Project Management Journal. He has written several books, including Why Infor- mation Systems Fail: A Case Study Approach. His research has been sponsored by the Australian Research Council, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and by various private-sector sponsors. He is joint editor-in-chief of the