Organizations have been using projects to achieve their strategic goals. Project success should be measured beyond its delivery stage. Post-delivery stages will determine long-term benefits of a project. At these stages, a project’s products would have been absorbed as an organization resources. This absorption will make the benefits of the project are vague. Factors that lead to successfully use and benefit project products tend to be difficult to differentiate; between variables that inherit from the project and those that are influenced by the host organization’s conditions.

Constructivist Grounded Theory is then to be proposed to unveil the benefits of a project at post-delivery stages. This methodology is expected to reveal conditions and circumstances that lead to the achievement of an organization’s strategic objectives. This methodology will be applied as a core method of evaluating the attainment of long-term objectives. Constructivist Grounded Theory is still rare to be used in the project management field.

Constructivist Grounded Theory Method (CGTM) will be used to capture and emphasize the meanings of project success at the post-delivery stages perceived by the participants (the viewed) who work for (inhibit) an organization (their world) as the former implementing organization and the benefits owners. Meanwhile, the researcher (the viewer) will use his professional experience (knowledge) to sensitize concepts of the overall project success. As well, CGTM is hoped to address two concerns of policy area: the institutional capacity of the former implementers and targeting for a specific population.

CGTM will be started by collecting data aiming at determining potential sites and participants. The selected participants will be interviewed using semi-structured approach. Data collection both through interviews and desk review will be conducted at the minimum of four participating organizations; followed by initial coding, focused (selecting coding), theoretical saturation and concepts generating. These steps will be conducted sequentially from one participating institution to another. Data saturation will determine the number of sampled institutions and their participants. The next phase will be theoretical saturation, by comparing generated concepts emerging from each selected institution. It is then to expect that process conducted at each institution will build mid-range theory.

This CGTM is proposed to be used to evaluate benefits gained from a World-Bank-funded project that runs in Indonesia between 2005 and 2012, and that was intended to the improvement of higher education institutions (HEIs) system across Indonesia. The project was called I-MHERE (Indonesia-Managing Higher Education for Relevance and Efficiency) Project.