Prioritising project management competences across the software project life cycle
International Journal of Managing Projects in Business
ISSN: 1753-8378
Article publication date: 22 March 2019
Issue publication date: 18 November 2019
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relative importance of project management (PM) competences across the different stages of a software project life cycle to identify competence development gaps and opportunities.
Design/methodology/approach
A deductive and quantitative approach was adopted to address the research questions with a web-based survey for data collection.
Findings
After reviewing the context of competences and PM competences, the importance of the PM competences overall and for specific stages in the project life cycle was analysed. The result highlights that functional and meta-competences are perceived to be the most important competence dimensions for software project practitioners.
Originality/value
This study makes three contributions. First, it consolidates PM competences into a set of 20 within four competence dimensions. Second, it prioritises these competences across the software project life cycle. Third, it identifies the significance of the inter-relationship between PM competences and project life cycle to reveal PM competence development gaps and opportunities.
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Citation
Cha, J. and Maytorena-Sanchez, E. (2019), "Prioritising project management competences across the software project life cycle", International Journal of Managing Projects in Business, Vol. 12 No. 4, pp. 961-978. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJMPB-11-2017-0145
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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