Transformational Leadership and Project Success

Running head: TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP AND PROJECT SUCCESS
Transformational leadership and project success
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction............................................................................................................................2
2. Intention and content of the article.........................................................................................3
3. Management of an IT project.................................................................................................3
4. Methodology used in the article.............................................................................................4
5. Positives of the article............................................................................................................4
6. Lessons learnt.........................................................................................................................5
7. Conclusion..............................................................................................................................5
8. Reference................................................................................................................................6
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1. Introduction
The notable objective of this report is to focus on an industry project which is related
with IT project management. The paper which is selected in this assignment has focussed on
the effect of transformational leadership on the success of the project. The impact of this
leadership on team building will be evaluated in this project [10]. Team building ability is
very much significant in most of the IT projects as there are different categories of
assumptions and limitations associated with the IT projects in terms of the selection of
software and hardware for the project, meeting the deadlines for each of the activities of this
project and management of the available resources required in the organization [2]. Critical
Success Factors is one of the most significant aspects regarding the incorporation of the
Information System across IT organizations.
Information Systems play a huge role regarding the success criteria of IT projects as it
helps to reduce huge amount of overhead costs which is a major concern for the primary
stakeholders of the IT organizations. Decision making procedure of the IT projects can be
enhanced in the first place after the incorporation of the Information System. Thus, it can be
said that success and failure of the IT projects is heavily depended on the deployment of the
Information systems [1]. However, there are few limitations which are associated with the
deployment of Information System across commercial organizations such as the flexibility
issues of the systems as compared with the expertise of the stakeholders who are associated
with this Information System, separate investment for the training sessions which are
required for the stakeholders who have negligible knowledge associated with Information
System, and monitoring capturing of the wrong information processed from the Information
System. Leadership role of the organizational leaders of the IT organizations are very much
significant in order to deal with this issue [3]. This report shall be evaluating the significance
of the transformational leadership skills which can be very much useful to address the above
discussed challenges which are associated with the IS.
This article shall be focusing on the impact of the transformational leaders which are
very much significant in the IT projects as it helps in building a better team who can work
with Information Systems and address each of the challenges associated with it. The article
has provided in-depth discussion regarding the impact of transformational leadership using
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