Project Management Research Methodology

This assignment focuses on the research methodologies employed in project management studies. It requires students to analyze different approaches to conducting literature reviews, collecting and analyzing data, and identify crucial factors for effective research in this field. The assignment draws upon a range of sources including academic papers and textbooks on project management and research methods.

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Evolution of project management methodology..............................................................................2
Project management Practice, Frameworks and Standards.............................................................3
Prince2 Project Methodology......................................................................................................4
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................5
References........................................................................................................................................7

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Introduction
The aim of this report is to provide a brief overview about project methodology for
discussing continuous professional development and allocation of responsibilities. The project
management outcomes are discussed in this report so that in life cycle state, the project can be
managed (Boud, Cohen and Sampson 2014). Project management principles and concepts are
emphasized with reflected different domain implications.
Evolution of project management methodology
The project management methodologies are evolved within different service and business
sectors. The management and methodology involved several specifications, cost, and change
management throughout project management life cycle (Golini, Kalchschmidt and Landoni
2015). The project management methodology is based on phases and life cycle. The evolution of
project management methodology is gradually continued with different approaches and proper
application of project management tools and techniques (Polonsky and Waller 2014). The
approaches are mentioned with all aspects of time, quality, and workforce management;
Traditional Project Management Life Cycle: Traditional project management life cycle
is based on waterfall model (Wilson 2014). The life cycle is dependent on different stages of
development such as requirement analysis, requirement elicitation, gathering, development, and
execution of stages.
Iterative Project Management Life Cycle: Iterative project life cycle involved the
iteration of stages over the entire project management life cycle (Karaman and Kurt 2015).

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Incremental Project Management Life Cycle: Incremental project life cycle is quite
similar to iterative project management life cycle (Ng and Coakes 2013). However, incremental
project management life cycle involves intermediate product or model of deliverable (Kerzner
2017).
Adaptive Project Management Life Cycle: The adaptive project management life cycle
considers the major outcomes and adapts them into next stage of development.
Project management Practice, Frameworks and Standards
In this project, the project management practice is initialized with outlining the project
with document as project charter and project feasibility report. The feasibility report states
whether the project can be feasible for implementation or not. Project scope statement identifies
the activities that should be accomplished by the end of project charter with critical success
factors (Kononenko, Aghaee and Lutsenko 2016). Project Scope Review statement identifies
about major project scope, project boundaries, limitations, revision of scope as well. The revision
of scope statement is another major strategy for determining the way to understand the project
success factors (Parker et al. 2013). The scope statement can determine the project charter
whether it can bring success in completion of project or not.
The project documentation and work breakdown structure of the project can decide how
the activities could be segmented under different parts that could be of use for completing the
project within stipulated timeline (Nicholas and Steyn 2017). The work breakdown structure can
be used for allocating the tasks and activities to other people with similar terms and time along
with individual responsibilities (Schwalbe 2015). The improvement of provided services can be
performed taking suggestions from the customers, consumers, and the people who avail the

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services within the organization service process. The services put the organizational structure
aligned with developing proper workforce and relevant learning process to achieve the project
requirements.
Prince2 Project Methodology
Project management methodology Prince2 is known as set of methods for providing
structured with several responsibilities for properly defined activities. The project management
team requires communicating with each other alongside the organizational activities (Singh and
Lano 2014). Prince2 methodology involves project with proper preparation and completion
within assigned time with controlled manner (Razavi, Padash and Nesbati 2017). The major
benefits of project management methodology are that this management process makes the
outcomes more predictable, along with proper utilization of best work process with standardizing
project management aspects. The aspects were considered for making sure that gap of
communication should not make hindrance between the activities (Svejvig and Andersen 2015).
The project methodology meets the requirement of the client along with stating the scopes and
activities. Besides, Pirnce2 benefits, the methodology have some major problems and issues that
are common to leadership and organization liability for introducing to prince2 methodology
(Jeston and Nelis 2014). The project management methodology can introduce more specialist
aspects for completion such as change management, detailed discussion on procurement and
others (Verma, Bansal and Pandey 2014). The project management documentation generally
takes more time rather the following of prince2 methodology in any project.
As per prince2 methodology, individual process of the projects can have support from the
continued business process so that the activities are justified in the project life cycle. The

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justifications are based on the organizational aspects (Yao 2016). The feasibility report states
whether the project can be feasible for implementation or not. Project scope statement identifies
the activities that should be accomplished by the end of project charter with critical success
factors. Project scope review statement identifies about major project scope, project boundaries,
limitations, revision of scope as well (Culha and Dogru 2014). The revision of scope statement is
another major strategy for determining the way to understand the project success factors. The
scope statement can determine the project charter whether it can bring success in completion of
project or not.
The work breakdown structure can be used for allocating the tasks and activities to other
people with similar terms and time along with individual responsibilities (Sekaran and Bougie
2016). The improvement of provided services can be performed taking suggestions from the
customers, consumers, and the people who avail the services within the organization service
process (Jain and Joshi 2016). The services put the organizational structure aligned with
developing proper workforce and relevant learning process to achieve the project requirements.
Conclusion
Prince2 methodology involves project with proper preparation and completion within
assigned time with controlled manner. The major benefits of project management methodology
are that this management process makes the outcomes more predictable, along with proper
utilization of best work process with standardizing project management aspects. The aspects
were considered for making sure that gap of communication should not make hindrance between
the activities. The project methodology meets the requirement of the client along with stating the
scopes and activities. The project management methodology can introduce more specialist

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aspects for completion such as change management, detailed discussion on procurement and
others. The project management documentation generally takes more time rather the following of
prince2 methodology in any project.

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References
Boud, D., Cohen, R. and Sampson, J. eds., 2014. Peer learning in higher education: Learning
from and with each other. Routledge.
Golini, R., Kalchschmidt, M. and Landoni, P., 2015. Adoption of project management practices:
the impact on international development projects of non-governmental
organizations. International Journal of Project Management, 33(3), pp.650-663.
Karaman, E. and Kurt, M., 2015. Comparison of project management methodologies: prince 2
versus PMBOK for it projects. Int. Journal of Applied Sciences and Engineering Research, 4(5),
pp.657-664.
Kerzner, H., 2017. Project management metrics, KPIs, and dashboards: a guide to measuring and
monitoring project performance. John Wiley & Sons.
Kononenko, I., Aghaee, A. and Lutsenko, S., 2016. Application of the project management
methodology synthesis method with fuzzy input data. Eastern-European Journal of Enterprise
Technologies, 2(3 (80)), pp.32-39.
Parker, D., Charlton, J., Ribeiro, A. and D. Pathak, R., 2013. Integration of project-based
management and change management: Intervention methodology. International Journal of
Productivity and Performance Management, 62(5), pp.534-544.
Schwalbe, K., 2015. Information technology project management. Cengage Learning.

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Singh, R. and Lano, K., 2014. Literature Survey of previous research work in Models and
Methodologies in Project Management. International Journal of Advanced Computer Science
and Applications, 5(9), pp.107-122.
Svejvig, P. and Andersen, P., 2015. Rethinking project management: A structured literature
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Wilson, J., 2014. Essentials of business research: A guide to doing your research project. Sage.
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Razavi, S.M., Padash, H. and Nesbati, A.N., 2017. The Role of Business Regulations in
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