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ITECH 7401 Leadership in IT Project Management

Project Management Blog

Purpose
To encourage students to expand their thinking through reading and sharing of their ideas in a web 2.0 format used by many project managers.

Assessment Details

Background
A blog is a discussion or informational site published on the web consisting of regular entries or posts in chronological order. A blog features diary-type commentary and links to articles on other websites. Many blogs focus on a particular topic; team blogs will focus on an area of project management leadership.

Blogs are useful for first time and experienced project managers, and are widely used in the industry. The purpose of your project management leadership blog is to share the results of your research and investigations with other students, and gather their feedback regarding your thoughts and ideas.

Requirements
Each individual student is required to select one (1) peer reviewed journal article from the list of four (4) journal articles provided on project management leadership related to the course (see below). Each individual student is required to write a blog critically analysing their selected journal article, including an introduction, summary, analysis, and conclusion (approximately 1200-1500 words). The review should be supported by references from the literature, demonstrating wider reading and critical thinking (approximately 6-10 references).

In addition, each individual student will be required to review one (1) other student's blog (approximately 100-150 words per review). Reviews should provide a deep analysis of the critique as well as suggesting applications and consequences of the ideas presented.

Select one (1) of the following articles:

• Norrie, J., & Walker, D. H. (2004). A balanced scorecard approach to project management leadership.
• Sutherland, J., Viktorov, A., Blount, J., & Puntikov, N. (2007, January). Distributed scrum: Agile project management with outsourced development teams.
• Nasir, M. (2006, June). A survey of software estimation techniques and project planning practices.
• Oertig, M., & Buergi, T. (2006). The challenges of managing cross-cultural virtual project teams.

A quality project management blog will be clearly articulated and professionally presented. It should demonstrate analysis, and a synthesis of content, knowledge, skills, and ideas acquired from lectures, tutorials and academic authors. It will include a well written introduction which catches the reader's attention, sets the scope of the blog, indicates the aims of the blog, and provides an overall plan for the blog. The summary should include a brief outline of the main ideas of the paper. The analysis should explain both the strengths and weaknesses of the key arguments and should be supported by evidence. The conclusion should revise the main ideas and include clear implications of your findings.

Referencing
Reference lists and in-text references should be presented in APA format:

Attachment:- Leadership in IT Project Management.rar