Project Management Annotated Bibliography and Analysis Report

This annotated bibliography provides a comprehensive overview of project management literature, encompassing a range of critical topics. The assignment analyzes eight sources, including articles by Meredith, Mantel & Shafer, Schwalbe, Fleming & Koppelman, Hornstein, Novo, Landis & Haley, Joslin & Müller, and Spalek. These sources explore various facets of project management, such as the efficiency of project management processes, the importance of project, program, and portfolio management, the significance of earned value project management, the integration of organizational change management, the role of leadership in project success, the relationship between project management methodology and project success, and the assessment of project management maturity. Each source is summarized with its main purpose, key findings, identified gaps, and contributions to the field. The bibliography highlights the common threads among the articles, such as the emphasis on effective management practices and the importance of adapting to change, while also noting differences in focus and the remaining gaps in the knowledge base. These gaps include the need for further research into ethical standards and a more comprehensive understanding of how project management methodologies interact with project governance frameworks. The assignment concludes by emphasizing the collective relevance of these sources to the field of project management, providing valuable insights for project managers and students alike.

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Meredith, J. R., Mantel Jr, S. J., & Shafer, S. M. (2017). Project management:
a managerial approach. John Wiley & Sons.
According to the authors, Meredith, Mantel & Shafer, (2017), the subject which is the
project management on the memory jogger proves to be most efficient and cost effective process
that ensures the project team in managing the project for achieving the best quality output from
the project. The article describes the process to be efficient enough as the process provides the
members or the stakeholders of the project for the organizationwith a easy and highly feasible
utilization of the road map that help in managing the project based work for the members and it
is applicable for all kinds of the project. The main purpose of the source is to evaluate the project
managementmemory jogger and the impact of the cost efficient process of the projects. The key
findings done by the authors are based on the effectiveness of the process on the project plan
done by the team. The author has also highlighted the use of the process when a team has started
the planning for the purpose of construction of the facility that will be newly developed which is
the customer feedback system. The article has high value on the part of contribution of the
customer feedback project management. This is evaluated as the guide that has been provided by
the author will help any kind of project in avoiding and preventing the situations of problem that
may affect the project. There is variety of useful information on all the concepts of the project for
successful completion of a project. The author has successfully tried to avoid all the gaps that
could have occurred as it comprises of all the stages from the conception of the project to the
completion of the project.

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Schwalbe, K. (2015). Information technology project management. Cengage
Learning.
The authorSchwalbe, (2015), has aimed in demonstrating the main topic of the article
which aims in gaining the knowledge of the Project, Program and portfolio management and
their importance. The author has tried to convince the readers on the fact that the better project
management is required for attaining the better projects, portfolio management and programs
which are high in demand. The article has successfully explained the concepts of the project,
what does a project mean and have provided the genuine examples for the project. Theauthor has
also evaluated and listed the different attributes of the projects. The attributes of the projects
have been described with the project constraints. The author has described the key elements for
the project management framework which includes the involvement of the project stakeholders.
The tools that are used for the project management process including the techniques for the new
era project management have been illustrated by the author. The new technologies have created a
bigger impact on the business process formanaging the projects. The project constrains like the
development of the scope, time and cost for the project management and their significance have
been illustrated defining the key findings for the article. The quality constraint is the other
constraints that are needed to be looked on by the project managers. The gaps that have been
found in the article are the proper illustration of the ethical standards that are applied for the
project management. However, the ethical standards have been mentioned, but they are not
illustrated or explained for particular failure cases. The author has efficiently described all the
values that can be concluded in this work. The descriptions given by the author are easy to

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understand for the readers and the points that have been mentioned by the author have a lot of
significance in gaining the knowledge of the project management.
Fleming, Q. W., &Koppelman, J. M. (2016, December). Earned value project
management. Project Management Institute.
As per the guidance of the authors Fleming and Koppelman, (2016), from the article
Earned project Management it can state that the author has focused on the emergence and
importance of the new powerful tool that is used for the software projects. The management of
the software projects are the main concern that has been evaluated by the author. The authors
have stated the importance of the Earned value which helps in delivering the project managers
with prior concern or alarming tool that is responsible of sending or signalling alerts as early as
possible in the stages of the project. They earned value signals on a stage of 5% completion of
the project. The aim of the article that has been stated by the authors is to gain the knowledge of
the process where a signal enables the project manager to sense the vulnerabilities that can
destruct the project or lead to a failure. It also provides the prediction for the total and the final
funds requirement that are required for completing the project provided that the project is done in
the narrow range ofvalues. The authors have described the keypart of the article by describing or
illustrating the efficiency of the model which allows the project managers and the team to
complete the project withnarrow resource or value environment.The article written by the author
has developed a high value and contribution to the project management scope. It allows the
project team to take necessary steps in the early stage so that they can be able to alter the final
requirement as they can get ten report where the final predicted and forecasted results or the
outputs are not accepted by the management. The advantage that has been received at theout of
the process is described by the author. The authordictates that practicing the method will benefits

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the software based projects where the project require extra final features provided the
management sense the actual cost base performance from the beginning of the project.
Hornstein, H. A. (2015). The integration of project management and
organizational change management is now a necessity. International Journal
of Project Management, 33(2), 291-298.
The author Hornstein, (2015), has discussed the necessity of the organizational change
management along with the integration of the project management which has become a prime
necessity for the project mangers as well as the team. The author has stated the importance of
training and providing guidance to the new project managers managing different type of projects.
The author has guided by stating the new project managers need to consider the matter of the
impact of the change in the organization on the success as well as the failure of the
implementation in the project.
The author has evaluated the scenario that depicts the case where the project managersare
highly recommended to get familiar with the Organizational change management. For illustrating
the fact and the importance of the OCM the author has guided with appropriate literature review
that provides the readers especially the new project managers with basic requirements reasoning
why they should follow the OCM. The authors have also added the fact that the project
management certifying organizations such as the PMI and IPMA are recommended for the new
project managers. The author has developed the sensethat the agencies help the new project
managers as wellas the old project managers to gain the knowledge on the prime focus which is
the Organizational Change management. The author has illustrated the PMBOK for the
betterment of the project mangers as the PMBOK guide is one of the most genuine guides which

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are followed by the Managers of the project for the successful completion of the project. This
embarks the importance of the job in the contribution to the field of the project management as
the project managers are profited by the knowledge gain over the groups if the processes that are
the initiating, planning, execution of the project, scrutinizing and controlling and closing of the
project. The authors have also addressed all the 9 information areas of the project management
leaving no gap within the article.
Novo, B., Landis, E. A., & Haley, M. L. (2017). Leadership and its role in the
success of project management. Journal of Leadership, Accountability and
Ethics, 14(1).
The authors Novo, Landis & Haley, (2017), has researched and stated that the research
work has been done before the completion of the article for the project mangers and also to
evaluate the evidence that are given for the derivation of the statistical importance.Research has
been performed and indicated that study has been undertaken to investigate project managers
management profiles and to examine the body of proof to determine the statistical significance
between project management and project success. The findings showed that different
characteristics that fall under the management of successful project executives are associated
with them. Relevant study has also shown that the management abilities of project executives are
closely linked to the achievement of projects. The two results were linked to the individual
project managers ' management styles. The efficiency of a project manager depends on a wide
variety of particular situations and the qualities of a team; a universal technique can therefore be
defined, of course.However, the authors describes eight key characteristics of the project
leadership: the organizational process which they consider could lead to the achievement of the
project leadership which are described by the author for being a thinker of the system, possessing

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the potential ability of personal integrity and also being proactive on the project processes. The
author has discussed about the most important areas of the projectmanagementwhich will help
the project managers to know about the leadership areas or the qualities which are required by
the project managers to posses leadership qualities.
Joslin, R., & Müller, R. (2015). Relationships between a project management
methodology and project success in different project governance
contexts. International Journal of Project Management, 33(6), 1377-1392.
The authors of the article Joslin & Müller, (2015), has provided the study that helps in
looking forward at the relationship that has been established between the project success ir the
expectation and the project management methodology. This research done by the authors
examines the link established between the utility of a PMM methodology and achievement of
project and the effect on this relationship of the project governance framework. There were 254
answers from a cross-sectional, global, online survey. Factor analyzes and moderated
hierarchical regression analyses have been performed. Theauthors found out in the research
indicate that 22,3% of the variation in project achievement is due to the implementation of a
PMM ; PMMs that are regarded as extensive enough to handle the project lead to greater project
achievement rates than PMMs that are needed for the project manager to be supplemented. In
this relation, project management functions as a quasi moderator. The results should help project
managers by offering insights into the selection of PMM in various governance situations.
Students should profit from insights into the role of PMMs as project success variables.

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Spalek, S. (2015). Establishing a Conceptual Model for Assessing Project
Management Maturity in Industrial Companies. International Journal of
Industrial Engineering, 22(2).
According to the authors Spalek, (2015),there are currently large numbers of projects
conducted by businesses. Processes in the business must therefore be established to support and
improve the efficiency of the project management. To accomplish this, businesses need to
understand how well they are in the leadership of organizational projects, taking distinct views
into account. They are willing to enhance their activity in difficult fields, knowing their strengths
and weaknesses. The paper presents a conceptual model for evaluating efficient maturity of
project management for the industrial businesses in perspective of the critical literature review
and also the consultation with selected firms. The model consists of four evaluation fields. The
model consists of four fields of evaluation. Three are the traditional way of measurement of
maturity which are, human resources, techniques, instruments and environment while the fourth
is the management of information. The model has been tested in more than 100 machinery firms
to confirm its practical application and produce valid outcomes that have not yet been examined.
The article successfully meets all the criteria that are needed to be met and provides assessment
to the sector of project management where the conceptual model for the assessment of project
management in the industries is established.

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Blaskovics, B. (2016). The impact of project manager on project success—The
case of ICT sector. Society and Economy. In Central and Eastern Europe ǀ
Journal of the Corvinus University of Budapest, 38(2), 261-281.
As per the author Blaskovics, (2016), the literature about project success is about wealthy
Project management. A wide range of articles concentrate on the development of project success,
achievement criteria identification and critical success factors. The Critical success factors
enhance project success efficiency while success of the project is assessed using success criteria.
While there are rare analyzes of the interrelationships between critical success factors and
success criteria, a powerful demand exists. This document has a dual purpose. One objective is to
assess the effect on project success of the project manager's attitude towards project success for
one of the CSF. The second objective is to stress the relationship between the individual features
for the managers of the project and the attitude of Project Management and the style of
leadership. The above described shortcomings are addressed, given that the relations between
critical success factors and successful criteria are not interrelated. The results of the research are
obtained from qualitative field research in the Hungarian subsidiaries of multinational IT
companies.
Kim, C., Jeon, J., & Kim, M. S. (2015). A Project Management System Based
on the PMBOK Guide for Student-Centered Learning. International Journal
of Knowledge Engineering, 1(3), 185-190.
In this research, a web-based project management system which is based on PMBOK has
been developed by PMI to promote management of the capstones projects in engineering training
courses for students. In addition to encouraging participant-led learning through leadership of

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team project delivery by learners themselves, the established web-based project management
system offers teaching employees with functioning and tracking for the entire course. The PMS
has been able to imply learners with effective project results and curriculum management that are
efficient in nature.
The author has evaluated the Student-cantered education, which involves more
accountability for learning by learners than the traditional strategy based on lectures, is a
framework that embraces a variety of educational techniques including investigation, problem-
based learning, case-based teachings, project-based learning, learning from discovery of new
elements for project. All of the techniques are endorsed by the results of studies which learners
learn by incorporating fresh data into current cognitive constructions and are not likely to learn if
fresh data has little obvious connection to past knowledge and beliefs.
Svejvig, P., & Andersen, P. (2015). Rethinking project management: A
structured literature review with a critical look at the brave new
world. International Journal of Project Management, 33(2), 278-290.
The authors Svejvig & Andersen, (2015), has done an excellent evaluation on the
Rethinking project management. This document provides the outcomes of a structured evaluation
of the literature of Replenished Project Management (RPM) based on the categorization and
investigation of 74 contributions in the project. In this assessment the author showed a total of
six major classifications: contextualisation, social and political based aspects, replenishment of
the complexity, practice, uncertainty, project realism and wider conceptualization. Mentioned
categories encompass a wide variety of contributions with various and alternative project
management views.

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PROBLEM STATEMENT
Getting Started with Your Problem Statement
There is a problem with ____Project management__(topic).
Despite _Project managers are leveraging various tools so as to track their projects___
(something that should be happening),
____no consistency is getting maintained so as to monitor and control the project
performances (Fleming &Koppelman, 2016) (provide the supporting research).
This problem has negatively affected _in delivering low quality projects affecting the
stakeholders associated with the project_ (victims).
Arguable

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A possible cause of this problem is _____negligence in maintaining the project quality or
compromising with the desired quality of the project deliverable_________.
If we don’t solve it, _________future projects will face serious quality issues___________
will happen (consequence).
Perhaps research that investigates __________the ways by which the quality standards
within project can be maintained___ could remedy this situation.
My Problem Statement/ Question
Though various researches are being conducted based on ways by which project managers
are making use of tools to track their projects, still projects are lacking consistency in
maintaining their quality standards leading to poor delivery of the project to the ned users.
Hence it is required to research further to find out ways by which the project managers can
maintain the quality standards of a project and how the project itself can deliver quality
within its deliverable.

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Bibliography:
Meredith, J. R., Mantel Jr, S. J., & Shafer, S. M. (2017). Project management: a managerial
approach. John Wiley & Sons.
Schwalbe, K. (2015). Information technology project management. Cengage Learning.
Fleming, Q. W., &Koppelman, J. M. (2016, December). Earned value project management.
Project Management Institute.
Hornstein, H. A. (2015). The integration of project management and organizational change
management is now a necessity. International Journal of Project Management, 33(2), 291-298.
Novo, B., Landis, E. A., & Haley, M. L. (2017). Leadership and its role in the success of project
management. Journal of Leadership, Accountability and Ethics, 14(1).
Joslin, R., & Müller, R. (2015). Relationships between a project management methodology and
project success in different project governance contexts. International Journal of Project
Management, 33(6), 1377-1392.
Spalek, S. (2015). Establishing a Conceptual Model for Assessing Project Management Maturity
in Industrial Companies. International Journal of Industrial Engineering, 22(2).
Blaskovics, B. (2016). The impact of project manager on project success—The case of ICT
sector. Society and Economy. In Central and Eastern Europe ǀ Journal of the Corvinus
University of Budapest, 38(2), 261-281.
Kim, C., Jeon, J., & Kim, M. S. (2015). A Project Management System Based on the PMBOK
Guide for Student-Centered Learning. International Journal of Knowledge Engineering, 1(3),
185-190.

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Svejvig, P., & Andersen, P. (2015). Rethinking project management: A structured literature
review with a critical look at the brave new world. International Journal of Project
Management, 33(2), 278-290.