Management Innovation of IT Project Managers

Abstract

Compared with other projects, information technology (IT) projects are unique, which are characterized by emergency, uniqueness, one shot, short term and uncertainty. To implement an IT project successfully, problems in the IT project management must be found, analyzed and solved and there must be successful project management and management innovation as well. Then, what are the major problems in IT project management? Who can conduct IT project management successfully? How to conduct IT project management successfully? How to innovate IT project management? This paper discusses all these questions. And on the basis of the above, it also draws the following conclusion: The project managers play a key role in both implementing and controlling stages of IT projects. The project managers should regard IT project management as a system, deal with various relationships with the parties concerned in the system well, and conduct management innovation. By adequate communication channels, the project managers should communicate with all the stakeholders, i.e. the factors in the system, including the client, the management, and the team members to know their requirements, needs and the problems respectively. Only by so doing, can they give satisfactory responsiveness to the client, get support from the management, lead and control the team outstandingly, and make the team work efficiently. While by management innovation, the project managers can make all the factors in their management system interact effectively and efficiently with each other to create a synergy effect. Only by so doing, can the IT project management be successful, and finally, can the IT projects be implemented successfully. Keywords-management innovation; IT project management; IT project managersI.

A Study of Project Management Processes for Sustainable and Successful Projects in Software Industry: Expectations vs Perceptions of Managers

“…The majority of project managers in the software and information technology (IT) sector have technical skills rather than managerial skills in different projects (Ko & Kirsch, 2017;Dobie, 2020). It has been reported that IT projects have failed because project managers have not been equipped with management skills (Liu & Liu, 2010;Lauesen, 2020) . Papke-Shields et al (2010) argued that the implementation of standard project management processes is essential for all organizations.…”

Project Management Application

“…The Standish Group International, Inc. reported in 2001 that 31 percent of all information technology (IT) projects were cancelled before completion, that only 16 percent of projects were completed successfully, and that 88 percent of all projects were over budget, overschedule or both. Standish reported an average cost overrun of 189 percent and an average time overrun of 222 percent of original estimates [3].The project thereby isn't completed successfully creating chaos among the project members and the pressure is on the project manager to meet the deadline. To avoid this situation we are trying to develop a project management application for students which will be helpful for them to plan, collaborate, discuss their projects with the project members and the guide; also scheduling the projects and carrying out the tasks in a timely manner will help the guide analyze the productive work of the students.…”

Literature Survey of previous research work in Models and Methodologies in Project Management

“…Effects of leadership and management qualities of project manager along with communication channels for managing projects had been explored by some researchers [39][40][41][42]. The importance of IQ, EQ, and MQ had also been studied.…”

“…Leadership abilities, communication and management abilities along with IQ, EQ, and MQ of the project manager have a huge impact on the projects [39][40][41][42]. Teaching of project management is not only about just teaching of GANTT and PERT chart but also must include various software and other tools for successfully managing projects.…”