Project Management and Leadership: Annotated Bibliography

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Project Management and Leadership: Annotated Bibliography

Project Management and Leadership: Annotated Bibliography

Introduction

Successful management of project involves more than paperwork, schedules, and templates. It requires the use of strong interpersonal management skills to work effectively with people in different roles. Project management is usually both science and art, and thus it requires both technical and interpersonal leadership skills. The prominence of project management in the contemporary world is catapulted by the globalization which makes some project to be inter-jurisdictional and thus creating a myriad of diverse factors that requires exquisite leadership skills and technical know-how to be integrated together. In the following review, five articles will be presented that are related to the topic of project management leadership.

Annotated Bibliography

Norrie, J. and Walker, D., 2004. A balanced scorecard approach to project management leadership. Project Management Journal, 35(4), pp.47-56.

The article seeks to propose an alternative measurement tools that can be used by project management to improve the project management and the project teams performance. By carrying out a survey and comparison of two projects that were undertaken by the North American global telecommunications organization, the article proposes balance scorecard as a vital tool for improving project management. The article is written for the academic audience, but it provides vital information that can be applied by the practitioners.

In the Academic Journal Guide, this article is published in the journal ranked as level 3 (ABS 3). This means that the paper is well executed, it is highly regarded in its filed, has good submission rates, and it is heavily referred. The article literature delves into several work such as Gehring (2007) on applying the leadership traits to the project management and Barber and Warn (2005) on the leadership of project management as shown by firefighters. This two literature reinforces the instrumentality of strategy as an added dimension to the traditional project management triple constraint, that is, template, schedule, and paperwork.

By taking the inductive approach, the author accentuates that balance score card is paramount to ensuring project management success. By using the case study analytical approach, the authors also finds out that balanced performance measurement is a vital technique for developing on-strategy project management. The author proposes the use of this technique as an extension of the current project management leadership practices through the addition of strategic measurement dimension.

Cleland, D.I., 1995. Leadership and the project-management body of knowledge. International Journal of Project Management, 13(2), pp.83-88.

By evaluating 15 manufacturing organizations, the article presents preliminary thoughts concerning the body of knowledge in project management…………………