Impact of Effective Decision Making in Software Project Management

This report delves into the crucial role of effective decision-making in software project management, using the case of Medgex. It begins with an introduction to the significance of decision-making in the software industry, highlighting the impact on project value and organizational growth. The report provides an overview of the company and its operations. The methodology section outlines the research approach, design, and data collection methods employed. The findings and discussion section analyzes the importance of decisions, the need for change, and the problems software managers face. The study aims to analyze the effectiveness of decision-making in software project management. The report also explores the consequences of poor decision-making, such as project delays and cancellations, emphasizing the need for proactive decision-making. The report concludes with recommendations for improving decision-making processes and enhancing project outcomes. The study uses the case study approach to provide insights into how effective decision-making can add value to projects.

To what extent can effective
decision making in software
project management help to
add value to a project

Table of Contents
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION....................................................................................................1
1.1 Background ..........................................................................................................................1
1.2 Company Overview..............................................................................................................2
1.3 Significance of the Problem..................................................................................................3
1.4 Statement of purpose.............................................................................................................4
1.5 Statement of Problem ...........................................................................................................5
1.6 Research aim and objectives ................................................................................................5
1.7 Research Questions...............................................................................................................6
1.8 Structure of the dissertation..................................................................................................6
CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW.........................................................................................8
2.1 Introduction ..........................................................................................................................8
2.2 Literature review ..................................................................................................................8
CHAPTER 3: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY ..........................................................................15
3.1 Introduction.........................................................................................................................15
3.2 Research philosophy...........................................................................................................15
3.3 Research approach..............................................................................................................16
3.4 Research strategy................................................................................................................17
3.5 Research design...................................................................................................................17
3.6 Data collection methods......................................................................................................18
3.7 Sampling.............................................................................................................................18
3.8 Reliability............................................................................................................................19
3.9 Validity................................................................................................................................19
3.10 Ethical consideration.........................................................................................................19
3.11 Limitations of the research................................................................................................20
3.12 Data analysis.....................................................................................................................20
CHAPTER 4: RESULTS AND DISCUSSION ............................................................................21
CHAPTER 5: CONCLUSIONS ...................................................................................................37
5.1 Conclusion ..........................................................................................................................37
5.2 Recommendation.................................................................................................................38

REFERENCES .............................................................................................................................40
APPENDIX ...................................................................................................................................43

TITLE: To what extent can effective decision making in software project management help to
add value to a project? Based on the case study of Medgex
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background
Decision making is the biggest issue and important task for project manager, project
manager is required to take all types of decisions on the basis of priority. To what extent an
effective decision making can help to adding more value in project is the topic for present
research. Software industry has been the most crucial and well equipped sector which helps to
bring new challenges and opportunity growth for the organization (Abrahamsson and et.al.,
2017). It develops the best and productive style of growth in organization in order to meet needs
of overall activities. Software includes businesses for development, maintenance and publication
of software that are using different business models. System software is having potential to
generate the best possible task oriented things. This is the basic requirement and goal oriented
thing which makes improved opportunity goals and better objectives. Moreover, technology
sector is the more challenging and effective goal making task. It helps company in its better
decision making process.
Along with that, there will be the great impact on the behavior of task oriented activities.
Software sector is the fastest growing industry these days according to the market expansion
growth. According to goals and objectives this helps to make the better changes and best
strategic plans. (Bolman and Deal, 2017). Effective decision making process will help to enhance
the software value and better decision making approach. Along with that,this is the best
technological growth which makes better decision making approach.
Nowadays, software is most essential and required part in the organization which holds
better opportunities and growth for the structure. Software technology should adopt the best
technological growth which needs makes better decision making approach it also helps to make
the better decision making approach. There are many software organizations that creates the best
creative and approachable manner of growth which also helps to make the better decision
making approach. It is the leading sector in organization which controls the best technological
growth in order to implement the best technological growth (Fuggetta and Di Nitto, 2014).
Software are involved in the provision, capacity, performance and availability of information
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technology. It is the matter of fact which contributes better techniques in order to implement the
best technological growth.
With the help of software, it makes changes and target market growth in order to meet the
needs of organizations that help company to make better decisions and enhance company’s
productivity as well. It helps to bring new changes in software or in products and services of
company. Moreover, it will be giving new challenging and process of making good goals.
Software industry has spread in large scale in wide manner which gives the best technological
growth and better opportunity level of growth. Along with that, it will be the most enlarging and
most effective process of making things. It also helps to enable employees to keep best quality of
products and services in organizational surroundings. It gives better advancing growth.
Software growing is the fastest development making sector which helps to influence
better opportunity and development. Along with that, it is the most required sector in the
organization to make the better decision and create new expansion growth for the organization.
The need of the organization is high and most required in the business system through company
helps to enable the opportunity growth and business expansion quality in their product and
services. Besides, software evaluation has benefited for all the organizations which brings new
decision in the company in terms of standardize the product and services.
1.2 Company Overview
Madgex is the world’s leading media brand organization which unlock the issues and
hurdles for their potential buyers and clients. Main concerning factor for company is to ensure
better objectives and target oriented goals for making environment more advanced and generic. It
has many offices in different locations such as Brighton UK, New York, Toronto and Berlin
(Gousios, Pinzger and Deursen, 2014). The best part of Madgex is that they are offering their
best services or products in various languages to make customers understand and hold their long
term relationship with them. This overall review has also helps to create the scope of wide
networking in order to meet the targets of the company. It has been given with the best
employment to their potential clients by providing services in moreover 14 countries. Therefore,
organization also adopts the customer oriented approaches to make services more fruitful for
them such as Madgex acquire Niche Expertise from many years. It gets a wide experience in
working with newspapers, B2B publishers, professionals associations and online recruitment
businesses.
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From the past few years, they powering job boards of over 500 brands. Likewise, they
provide technological experiences and input that contribute to the client’s businesses. Another,
approach on which company works that is Results focused. According to the company they think
that great their products and services is the best outcome to achieve the client satisfaction.
Results focused is the main target goal for the company through which they enlarging their
process of making things and process. Mainly Madgex having large number of product features
through company gain the client satisfaction results. They provide many of world’s most
successful media brands and provide the full range of tools needed to run a profitable online
recruitment process to make better growth in market share.
Apart from that, it will be the most enlarging process of doing things normal and
sustainable. Madgex is the high technology reformed, highly configurable the technology for
making perfect representation of your brand and a tailored approach. Apart from that, Madgex
product features are full branded job board, Employer E-commerce portal, search engine
optimization, social media integration, e-mail marketing tools, web widgets, content
management system, etc.
1.3 Significance of the Problem
To analyze importance of decision in software project management, manager needs to
identify issues and problems in order to make better control or take corrective action plan.
(Kerzner and Kerzner, 2017). It is overall system and large making performance in order to meet
needs of organization. Present study helps to focus on importance of new decision in software
according to new changes. Apart from that, this helps to make making approach in terms of
better decision growth. It creates value and importance of software and their necessity in the
business operations of Madgex. Study outcomes have been given with better opportunities to the
other software companies. Researcher will help to provide in-depth knowledge of making better
software making goals.
Apart from that, researcher also takes the help of different techniques and methods of
collected data. They take help from different techniques of research tools to collect productive
data for research. Software sector is the most powerful and sector that create the best
approachable task oriented goals. In the business function. Besides, it also helps to generate the
importance of technology and their need in the business approach. Moreover, it brings new
changes and better objectives as well as goals for getting productive outcomes. It is very much
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required to identify the conflicts' activity of the software project management. Through this
research outcomes it has been seen that, it will be the great impact on the behavior of the
company nature. This study will also enlarge the scope of Software Company and their quality of
work (Muller, 2017). Research is the more prominent and effective leadership tool to enhance
the better decision making approach it will also help to take care the needs of the organizations.
It is the best and long term process that help to make better decision making approach.
 Present research is useful for different types of software companies who are thinking to
implement changes according to market demand that is helpful to take new development
decision making approach in order to add more value in project management. It helps to
improve the company’s outcomes.
 In terms of company growth this has been contributing best and large support in terms of
making better opportunity growth. This types of ideas and concepts brings new changes
and better opportunity task to implement the better opportunity task. Moreover, present
study cleared the importance of new decision making to perform better task oriented
projects for the company development process. This will give better opportunity and
growth in order to develop the overall process.
 Investigation assists to make new changes in terms of better opportunities to understand
relation that improves knowledge, skills and abilities This will help to identify the
different facts and important aspects of the business functions.
1.4 Statement of purpose
Software is basic requirement for big multinational or information technologies to boost
their functional areas in organization. It is necessary for project manager to develop or make
effective changes in software as per requirements. From the basis researcher, it has been seen
that many of the project managers facing poor quality, late delivery and many of the projects has
canceled due to poor maintenance of software this is the impact of ineffective decision making
approach.(Harrison and Lock, 2017). Effective decision is required of the nature for introducing
new changes and quality improvement goals. Present study will analyze the effective decision in
software project management Most of the time due to no change projects are not set the given
objectives and target due to which company facing rework or recreation. For that, manager
should allow the changes according to the best delivering of the projects. Present study will be
explaining the importance of making good things and better opportunity and growth.
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1.5 Statement of Problem
In Software sector managers facing high issues in the up gradation process through which
they lacking the point of making good task oriented projects. In this study, researcher will take
the part of the Present aims of the study is just to analyses the needs of change for accounting for
the project manager. It makes the better decision making process in order to make the better
growth. Along with that, in this section the problem statement is that sometimes manager cannot
adopt instant changes in the software segments.
1.6 Research aim and objectives
Research have one motive to analyses the effectiveness of decision making in software
project management. Changes in the software according to the needs and wants in order to stable
the proper implementation process or also helpful to make better decision making process.
According to project requirement. Product development is important for the differentiation
between the base line functionality necessary for any system. It helps to compete with the best
approachable method of working. Apart from that, it will be the more enlarging and necessary
for the Madgex to enhance the product features and better stability
In the market. In order to fulfill their research goals researcher follows following aims and
objectives to make get better target outcomes.
Research Aim
To analyze the effectiveness of decision making in software project management. Based on the
case study of Medgex.
Research objectives
 To identify the importance of decision making in software project management
 To understand the term project management in relation to software sector
 Understanding the conflict and activities of software project management
 To analyze the resolution of conflicts
1.7 Research Questions
 How can project manager give the best and effective decision making approach in order
to enhance the value of project management.
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1.8 Structure of the dissertation
Overall, researcher undertakes different channels of resources and methods to collect the
data from different resources or from authentic resources. The investigator is the present study
shall adopt qualitative approach for collecting the data from different sources. Besides, all
information has collect from primary as well as secondary data. Primary data collected from
questionnaire. On the other hand, for analyzing secondary data, scholar will collect data from
articles, journals or from books and articles. Madgex is also measuring the importance of
software changes in order to meet the needs of outcomes. However, qualitative techniques has
developed the efficiency level of the company. It has been given and making better performance
level to the organization goals. Researcher will analyze the importance of new changes in order
to make better decision making approach.
Chapter 1: Introduction: In this first segment in this dissertation which includes the primary
section under which researcher explains the over view of the study. Research will be taken
Madgex Company for completing the research which will be based on decision making in project
management in Software sector. This research will help to identify the importance of software
changes according to introduce new alteration in the existing software of the company (Serrador
and Pinto, 2015). Overall, research helps to take the current technologies' growth.
Chapter 2: Literature review: This is another term or a section which helps to review different
elements that are related to their objectives and aim. It helps to carry out better resource
planning. Literature review makes better research and give good advantages.
Chapter 3: Research methodology: It is another element of research under in researcher
analyses the method of data collection and all kinds of journals that help to accomplish the target
goals. There are two methods through data has been collected primary and secondary resources.
With the help of carrying this report further these resources helps to understand the importance
of effective decision making in software project that help to enhance the value of management or
in company projects. Further, research resources are very much helpful to undertake various
important aspects of research outcomes.
Chapter 4: Data Analysis and findings: In this chapter, researcher collects all data for the
research and then taken into next step where they analyze them and take better possible
outcomes. In this way, descriptive research has been taken for this research process.
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Chapter 5: Conclusion and recommendations: In this section of conclusion, researcher
concludes the overall outcomes and results as well as recommends some strategies and action
plan for thesis which analyze data in systematic manner.
Chapter 6: Continuity and presentation: In this section of presentation, researcher presents
research report in order to find the problem solving technique under all research process making.
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CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW
2.1 Introduction
Effective decision making approach is very much essential for the organization. This will
help project management to enhance the value of the quality that helps to take productive
outcomes. Present research has been based on effective decision making in software project
management help to add value to a project. Furthermore, it will be critically evaluate that,
analyzed the importance of decision making in project management. Besides, it will also identify
the challenges faces by the software sector.
2.2 Literature review
According to Binder, (2016) importance of software in decision making approach is very
much essential and required in the software sector. Project managers are highly emerged in
decision making process. That help to analogue the digital marketing approach that help to
making good task oriented work. Effective decision making approach will help project manager
to adding some more values and productive outcomes possibilities. Moreover, it brings new
challenges as well in terms of changing nature or behavior of technology development suggested
by Bonamano and et.al., (2016). Decision making process is the set structure which helps to
make better growth making process.
Overall, according to Conforto and et.al., (2016) decision making consist consistency,
comprehensiveness and continuity. Consistency approach will enhance the better target goals in
order to meet the needs of the organization purpose. Moreover, it helps to bring new changes and
better decision making approach. Effective consistency can give better planning and stability in
software project management. Comprehensive decision making principle will help to accomplish
the improper making time. Apart from that it will be more challenging and decision making
process. Software sector is the most challenging and decision making process.
Moreover, it helps to bring new changes according to Conforto and et.al., (2016).
Besides, another or last principle of decision making is continuous process which makes better
decision making. It helps to bring new changes and new changes. Decision making process is the
best approachable target goals and making good impact on the overall process of decision
making approach. Moreover, it helps to give the better technological growth. Decision making
approach will help to take better decision making growth.
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Decision making process manager helps to make better decision making better decision
making approach. Overall this makes the better decision making approach. According to Haimes,
(2015) it has been suggested that software project management must be required to make the
better decision making approach. Along with that, it will be more explaining the process which
explains the better performance and impressive role making task. It will be taken better activity
growth which helps to make the better technological. Many third countries have numerous their
infrastructure making process. Apart from that, due to unplanned conditions and less effective
growth will make project decision down. It will help Medgex to enhance the productivity level of
effective work efficient manner of work.
Apart from that, this gives better decision making process which helps to discover the
new productive things and matter of fact. Apart from that, decision making approach will help to
discover the best new ideas and innovation styles. Decision making in monitoring and design of
project monitoring system The Roles of Monitoring and evaluation in projects, (2018). It helps to
make the better decision making approach. Role of monitoring is also helpful for software
project management in order to enhance the project quality management. Apart from that, it will
be more enhancing and better decision making approach which helps to make better decision
making process for Medgex.
According to Kerzner and Kerzner, (2017) monitoring includes some national level and
essential that is physical and financial monitoring, process monitoring and impact monitoring.
Physical and financial monitoring includes factors which is accountable for progress of activities
or sources of output production. Another monitoring element is process monitoring accountable
for the output production. It gives better performance level through making good skill oriented
goals. Last process of monitoring through Medgex can easily operate its business and maintained
the stability level that is Impact monitoring under which project manager identifying the factors
of response and their short term effects.
Apart from that, it will measure the better decision making process according to Kerzner
and Kerzner, (2017). Software plays a distinct role in Medgex through which they get the
maximum customer attraction. Apart from that, poor monitoring process will lead the lack of
accuracy level in the project management which might be creating low productivity outcomes.
However, company needs to monitor the plan and overall process of implementation to make
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