Project Management Volume, Velocity, Variety: A Big Data Dynamics Approach

Abstract

The era of Big Data has provided business organisations opportunities to improve their management processes. This developmental paper is adopting a mixed-method research approach where qualitative data will underpin a quantitative questionnaire. The early insights are based on an initial eleven qualitative interviews and conceptualised in the following three statements: (i) Project practitioners need to increase their data literacy; (ii) Project practitioners are not utilising the available Big Data based on the 3 Vs; Volume, Velocity and Variety; (iii) Project practitioners need to utilise the structured available data to augment the decision-making process to represent the complex environment of Big Data, the study adopts Complexity Theory as a theoretical framework. When completed, the research will demonstrate the results through System Dynamics modelling.

Homeworking Project Management & Agility as the New Normal in a COVID-19 World

“…Furthermore, the aftermath of the Covid-19 crisis will impact employment in the future as it will result in significant changes in the trends in labour markets and the required skills for the future workers will also shift due to the changing work patterns (Dacre et al, 2019;PwC, 2020). The demand for project managers who have digital skills (Brookes et al, 2020;Hsu et al, 2021), agility skills (Dong et al, 2021), data skills (Kockum & Dacre, 2021), communication skills, and leadership skills (Tite et al, 2021), will be more likely to be required since there is a possibility that organisations will require a more significant number of employees to implement remote working as the new normal.…”