Scribd Logo
Upload

Welcome to Scribd!

  • 86 views

    The Impact of Project Management in Virtual Environment: A Software Industry Perspective

    Uploaded by

    Amal Dev
    The document summarizes a research paper on the impact of project management in a virtual environment from a software industry perspective. It discusses how virtual teams are commonly used in software projects but often fail due to issues like a lack of in-person contact, resources, and time zone differences hindering collaboration. The research methodology used a survey of 10 virtual software teams in Sri Lanka to identify factors affecting project human resource management virtually. While the research identified key challenges, the study had a small sample size and could have been improved by considering a larger population and using additional research methods.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    The Impact of Project Management in Virtual Environment: A Software Industry Perspective

    Uploaded by

    Amal Dev
    86 views4 pages
    The document summarizes a research paper on the impact of project management in a virtual environment from a software industry perspective. It discusses how virtual teams are commonly used in software projects but often fail due to issues like a lack of in-person contact, resources, and time zone differences hindering collaboration. The research methodology used a survey of 10 virtual software teams in Sri Lanka to identify factors affecting project human resource management virtually. While the research identified key challenges, the study had a small sample size and could have been improved by considering a larger population and using additional research methods.

    Original Title

    Amal Dev m 1527505 Spmcia1

    Copyright

    © © All Rights Reserved

    Available Formats

    DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Did you find this document useful?

    Is this content inappropriate?

    The document summarizes a research paper on the impact of project management in a virtual environment from a software industry perspective. It discusses how virtual teams are commonly used in software projects but often fail due to issues like a lack of in-person contact, resources, and time zone differences hindering collaboration. The research methodology used a survey of 10 virtual software teams in Sri Lanka to identify factors affecting project human resource management virtually. While the research identified key challenges, the study had a small sample size and could have been improved by considering a larger population and using additional research methods.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as docx, pdf, or txt
    86 views4 pages

    The Impact of Project Management in Virtual Environment: A Software Industry Perspective

    Uploaded by

    Amal Dev
    The document summarizes a research paper on the impact of project management in a virtual environment from a software industry perspective. It discusses how virtual teams are commonly used in software projects but often fail due to issues like a lack of in-person contact, resources, and time zone differences hindering collaboration. The research methodology used a survey of 10 virtual software teams in Sri Lanka to identify factors affecting project human resource management virtually. While the research identified key challenges, the study had a small sample size and could have been improved by considering a larger population and using additional research methods.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as docx, pdf, or txt
    of 4

    INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT

    CHRIST UNIVERSITY
    (IMCU)
    A REVIEW OF
    The Impact of Project Management in Virtual
    Environment: A Software Industry Perspective
    By
    N. B. J. Gamage
    https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1601/1601.01220.pdf

    International Journal of Computer Applications (0975 8887)


    Volume 58 No.8, November 2016
    AS PART OF
    SOFTWARE PROJECT MANAGEMENT
    &
    IT OUTSOURCING
    CIA I
    By
    AMAL DEV M
    1527505
    5MBA L1
    Under the guidance of
    Prof N Ramakrishnan

    ABSTRACT
    The main purpose of this article is the analysis of virtual teams in a software project. Virtual
    team within an organization could achieve optimized project performance by acquiring
    appropriate human resources, coordination, communication and regular performance evaluation.
    According to the literature many ICT tools will collaborate to manage virtual teams, but still
    most of the projects lead to failure in the software industry. Aim of this research is to discover
    the most affected factors for virtual project human resource management.

    INTRODUCTION
    A virtual team is a group of individuals who work across time, space and organizational
    boundaries with links strengthened by communication technology .Virtual team concept is very
    common in the software industry. Most of the time clients and software development team in
    different locations in the world. Sometimes there are multiple virtual development teams located
    in different places. Their subject experts live in different places in the world. So that project
    manager needs to hire team from all over the world locations.
    Therefore, this research investigates major factors that could influence effective project
    management in virtual environment of Sri Lankan Software Industry. The author states that
    virtual team human resource management is challengeable task for practicing project manager.
    Most of the projects fails because resource inefficiency and late to discover resource skill gap
    which hinders gaining maximum output from the project team in a virtual environment and
    affects project managers performances as well as the overall success of the project. Furthermore
    virtual team human resource management has challengeable issues, so to find solution for these
    issues will benefit the project managers and other all stakeholders who handle their projects in
    virtual environment.
    The objectives of this study are as follows
    1. To identify what are practicing project managers facing issues.
    2. To identify factors influence project human resource management in Virtual environment.
    In addition, the scope of this research encompasses how project managers handle their project
    team members in a virtual environment. How do they use agile project management
    methodology effectively and efficient way to handle the problems while project running? What
    are the major factors affected to the project human resource management in a virtual team?

    RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
    Quantitative approach is used because it offers the flexibility to represent the population in
    general of users within organizations and also widely penetrated approach in IS. Furthermore,
    quantitative research approach can aid to the use of tables and charts to visualize the data, use

    appropriate means to describe it, and chose some methods to examine trend relationship within it
    using statistical techniques like hypothesis testing.
    The idea of a survey is used to obtain same sorts of data from a large group of people in a
    standard and systematic way .On the other hand, it may not consume respondents time
    unnecessarily. Perhaps the greatest benefits offered by a survey study from respondents
    viewpoint would be the freedom to choose their best opinion from a given set of options, which
    is also more easy process for them instead of having an interview Furthermore, overall survey
    study could help respondents to get an idea of the research field.
    Thus a Likert scale questionnaire was used to conduct the survey for the research.
    Population
    Project managers and Team Leads of Software development companies who manage virtual
    teams in the Sri Lanka.
    Sample
    The research was conducted with 10 software development virtual teams with 7-10 members,
    who work different locations in the world (N=10).

    RESULTS
    Most of virtual teams are ineffective as a percentage 25%, lack of team performance as a
    percentage 27%. Another issue is individual performance lower of team members as a percentage
    17%. But another study prove that 18% virtual teams are success in action.
    The three main reasons affecting virtual team in trouble were
    1. Lack of face-to-face contact with team members (46% of responses),
    2. Lack of Resources (37%) and
    3. Time zone differences hindering the ability to collaborate (29%).

    CRITICISM
    1. The sample size considered for the study was very small (N=10).
    2. The population should have been software engineers from IT hotspots of the world like
    India or US as the software industry in Sri Lanka is still developing.
    3. Research methodology used i.e. survey method or questionnaire may be subjected to the
    mood and perception of the interviewee rather than experience.
    4. Two areas of critique for the literature review involve the lack of critical analysis and an
    ineffective discussion of how the current research will add to or enhance the existing
    body of knowledge.

    CONCLUSION

    Virtual project teams are being used by organizations primarily for cost reasons.
    In most of the selected organizations, the techniques for managing virtual project
    teams do not differ significantly between virtual project teams and traditional project
    teams.
    Technology is an enabler of virtual project teams. It is not the solution to virtual
    project teams.
    Virtual project team managers need to take a different approach to managing their
    teams less management, more leadership.

    You might also like