Project Management Methodologies: Adoption, Impact & Elements

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of project management methodologies, exploring the reasons why organizations adopt them, the impact they have on stakeholders, and the major elements that meet organizational needs. It discusses strategic alignment, leadership, clear objectives, quality control, and risk management as key drivers for adopting project management. The report critically examines the importance of informing both internal and external stakeholders about project management activities, highlighting the need for acceptance and habituation of new strategies to enhance project efficiency. Furthermore, it justifies major elements such as planning, requirements, resources, procurement, quality, risk, ethics, and governance within a project management methodology. The inclusion of a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) illustrates project organization, responsibility, cost indication, and scope, emphasizing its role in project success. The study concludes that strategic alignment and quality control are significant benefits of project management, underscoring the importance of stakeholder involvement and meticulous planning for successful project outcomes. Desklib offers a wealth of similar resources for students.

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Explain reasons why organisations adopt Project Management Methodologies.............................2
Critically analyse the impact of Project Management Methodologies upon stakeholders..............3
Explain and justify the major elements of a Project Management Methodology that might meet
the needs of an organization............................................................................................................4
Work Breakdown Structure.............................................................................................................6
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................7
Reference List..................................................................................................................................8
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Introduction
Project management is considered to be an efficient method that helps in making a new change
in a company in a methodical form. In this study, the importance of project management has
been mentioned. The reason behind adoption of project management has been mentioned in the
study. It has been also mentioned in the study regarding the analysis of impact of project
management upon the stakeholders. Justification of major elements of project management has
been also mentioned in the study.
Explain reasons why organisations adopt Project Management Methodologies
Strategic alignment
According to Mir and Pinnington (2014, p.202), strategic alignment is considered to be a
beneficial reason for adopting project management strategies. In respect to a company, for
getting new ideas to implement in the activities, project management gets adopted. Project
management plan helps in strategically align activities that can efficiently help in meeting the
demand of a company.
Leadership
Project management also facilitates in leading a company that can help in meeting the demand of
a company. A proper leadership helps avoiding internal conflict that can help in meeting the
project objective. It is also important to mention that project management helps in leading
activities efficiently that can help in efficiently meeting company’s demand.
Clear Focus and objectives
As stated by Todorović et al. (2015, 772), project management helps in getting a particular goals
and objective for meeting the demands of a company. It is important to mention that the feature
of clear focus in project management can help in efficiently perform goals-focused activities in a
company. It is also important to mention the clear objectives and staying focused helps in getting
maximum outcome from the activity.
Quality control
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As stated by Davis (2014, p.189), quality and control is another beneficiary factor in adopting
project management in a company. It is also important to mention that the quality control can be
handled in project management so that it can help in meeting the demand of a company. The
quality control can also efficiently help in getting the best outcome from the project management
activities.
Risk Management
Risk management activities can be also considered to be an important factor of project
management that efficiently affects activities of a company. The risk management feature acts as
a backup for any risk related issues if gets created in project execution process. Thus, companies
use to utilize the project management process in order to meet the demands of a company and get
the execution of a plan for a company to get successfully done.
Critically analyse the impact of Project Management Methodologies upon stakeholders
According to Too and Weaver (2014, p.1382), for a company, the stakeholders are needed to get
informed regarding adoption of project management so that it can help in meeting the demands
of a company. The stakeholders are the only medium by whom, the whole project management
activities can get done properly. The execution of a plan in project management highly depends
on the cooperation of the stakeholders of a company. It is very important for a company to
inform both external and internal stakeholders of a company regarding the project management
adoption in the company. However, Hornstein (2015, p.291) argued that there is no requirement
of making external stakeholders known regarding project management strategies that can help in
meeting the demand of the customers. It is also important to mention that the external
stakeholders are also equally important as the internals are. Therefore, it is important for a
company to inform the project management related activities to both stakeholders.
The project management, as brings change in a company, is needed to have changes in the
activities of internal stakeholders also. The acceptance and habituation of the new strategy can
help in increasing the efficiency of the project management activities in a company. According
to Svejvig and Andersen (2015), the project management activities by the internal stakeholders
of a company can create issues for the company. It is also important to mention that there are
issues regarding project plan execution which cannot be possible to resolve without the help of
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the internal stakeholders. However, Serra and Kunc (2015, p.53) contradicted that the internal
stakeholders is not much required to get informed regarding project management activities. It is
very important for a project management activity of a company to perform by taking taking help
from the internal stakeholders, as it can help in mitigating activities that can create issues in
managing project.
Explain and justify the major elements of a Project Management Methodology that might
meet the needs of an organization
Planning
According to Braglia and Frosolini (2014, p.18), planning is considered to be the first and
foremost activities of project management that is creates the project initiation phase of project
management. It is important to mention that the project management phase helps in making a
complete plan on the resources and activities that can successfully complete the project
management process of a company.
Requirements
Requirements are also belongs to the same category of the project management phase, that can
help in meeting the demands of a company. The project management requirements is the part of
planning process where the requirements of manpower and machine power for executing the
project gets sorted out.
Resources
The resources are, as mentioned by Joslin and Müller (2015, p.1377), important element in
project management, based on which, the whole project process stands. Therefore, determining
the actual resources of project is important to get done as it can help in meeting the demands of
the company and its stakeholders. The planning phase of project management includes the
resource listing process as well.
Procurement
Resource procurement is also considered to be important factor of concern for a project
management process. The project management process plans the methods, by which, the
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resources required for getting the project successfully done, gets acquired. The efficiency of the
procurement process helps in meeting the demands of the customers.
Quality
According to Svejvig and Andersen (2015), quality of performance is another important element
in project management process. It is important to mention that, the quality of activities in a
project management process determines the quality of the outcome of the project. Thus, it is
clear that the project management process should be performed with quality by the internal
stakeholders of a company.
Risk
The risk, as pointed out by Budayan et al. (2015, p.94), is another aspect that is always gets
associated with the project management process. The risk of project management is the factors
that put negative affect over the progress of project management activities. However, the project
management activities always have the risk management which resolves the risks that gets
created in the performance of project management.
Ethics
In project management process, ethics maintenance is an important factor of element. The ethics
are the guidelines which the project management follows in order to get a project done properly.
It is also important to mention that the ethics are the factors that help in increasing the demand of
a company.
Governance
According to Mir and Pinnington (2014, p.202), the governance is also considered to be the
method of controlling the activities and project management. The governance is also supposed to
get resolving issues and risks, that can help in mitigating the issues, if gets created in a company.
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Work Breakdown Structure
Figure 1: WBS
(Souirce: Created by author)
In the above figure, the merging and acquisition of two companies nin respect to WBS has been
mentioned
According to Joslin and Müller (2015, p.1377), the work breakdown structure is considered to be
the effective method of presenting the total plan of project management. Usually, the work
breakdown structure gets created by a project manager in order to create a detailed plan of
activities following which the whole project management activities will get executed. It is an
important structure which determines the success of a project management plan and its success
after completion.
Accurate project organization
The main aim of the work break down structure is that it helps a project manager and to the
project managing team to get understand regarding the accurate project details that has be
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carried on in future. The WBS also helps in increasing the concentrate each and every team
member to increase its aspects of operation efficiently.
Accurate responsibility
According to Hornstein (2015, p.291), WBS also helps in increasing the efficiency of the project
by mentioning the project responsibility. In the planning stage of project management, it is
needed to allocate the responsibility of each and every team members with their respective
responsibilities. The WBS helps in pointing at all responsibilities with allocated person in the
WBS.
Indicates project cost
The WBS sometimes also indicates the project cost of each and every step of performance that
helps to het idea regarding a particular project. The management of performance can get done
accordingly, by getting an idea regarding the expenses that can get incurred in every steps of
performance of a project management.
Illustrate project scope
In WBS, illustration of activity of project scope also gets displayed. In the project scope, it is
important for a project manager to present the WBS in order to meet the demands of the project
management. It is also important to mention that the wide scope of the project management can
help in motivating the project team members efficiently.
Conclusion
In this study, it is found that strategic alignment is considered to be a beneficial reason for
adopting project management strategies. Quality and control is another beneficiary factor in
adopting project management in a company. It is also found in the study that the project
management requirements are the part of planning process where the requirements of manpower
and machine power for executing the project gets sorted out.
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