Project Management Artefact: Improving Project Management Model

This report presents the development of a project management artefact aimed at improving project management, leadership, and organizational structure. It leverages various project management tools and techniques, including Gantt charts, critical path analysis, and work breakdown structures, alongside management methodologies such as the waterfall model, agile methodology, and lean project management. Different leadership styles, including laissez-faire, democratic, and autocratic, are considered. Interviews with experienced project managers inform the selection of optimal tools, techniques, and leadership styles, addressing challenges such as natural disasters, change management, and organizational structure. The resulting process model integrates project management factors to enhance information management and project success.

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Introduction
The following assignment is report on the development of the artefact for the improved
project management, leadership and organization structure. The use of various literatures has
been done for developing the understanding for the use of the various project management tools
and techniques, leadership styles, and the organizational structure used. The use of the interviews
would be done for identifying the most optimum model for the project management.
Process Model (Artefact) for Project Management
The various project management tools like Gantt charts, critical path analysis, logic
networks, pert, product breakdown structure (PBS), and work breakdown structure (WBS) are
helpful for developing the final project management. The various management techniques like
waterfall project model, critical path method, project management body of knowledge
(PMBOK), agile methodology, extreme programming, adaptive project framework, prince2
methodology, lean project management, and six sigma principles are helpful for developing the
improved functional activities. According to Anderson and Sun (2017), the possible leadership
styles for the project management are laissez-faire, democratic, autocratic and bureaucratic.
The interview with the two project managers of different experience, skill, and capability
have been done for understanding the most appropriate project management tools and
techniques, leadership styles, and the organizational structure (Kerzner and Kerzner 2017). The
process model would be developed after the identification of the most optimum choice of the two
managers. The interview helped in identifying the major issues for execution of the project are
natural disaster, change management, and chaotic organizational structure. The probable solution
for dealing with the issue of failed situations was by allowing the upper level management to
deal with the situation.

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Figure 1: Process Model for Project Management
(Source: Created by the author)

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Class Selected
Object
Reason for Selection
Project
Management
Tools
Gantt Chart It is very helpful for aligning the time management and
schedule development of the project. The management of
the project activities would be eased with the help of Gantt
chart.
Project
Management
Techniques
Adaptive
Project
Framework
It has flexibility of operations along with the improved
teamwork development. The technique improves the
collaboration of the teams and quality of the end product.
Project
Leadership Styles
Laissez-Faire It has high power for the role of manager and team in
decision making. Moreover it allows the flexibility options
for the users.
Project
Organizational
Structure
Project Based Development of the project organizational structure based
on the project would help in identifying the independent
variables (leadership, competencies), moderating variables
(project type, strategic impact, application, life cycle,
culture, and complexity), and dependent variables (sponsor,
user, supplier, project).
Conclusion
It can be concluded from the assignment that the implication of the innovative
information management would be helpful for taking care of the innovative management and
implication of the successful development of the process model. The process model (artefact)
would be developed for developing an integrated project management model for the
improvement of the successful information management. The analysis had been implied with the
development of the effective project management factors and development.

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References
Anderson, M.H. and Sun, P.Y., 2017. Reviewing leadership styles: Overlaps and the need for a
new ‘full‐range’theory. International Journal of Management Reviews, 19(1), pp.76-96.
Kerzner, H. and Kerzner, H.R., 2017. Project management: a systems approach to planning,
scheduling, and controlling. John Wiley & Sons.