The effects of leadership on IT-projects

Projektin hallinta ja johtaminen ovat olennaisia tekijöitä IT-projekteissa. Näitä tekijöitä ei ole kuitenkaan tutkittu tarpeeksi tehokkaasti, sillä suuri osa ITprojekteista epäonnistuu huonon projektin hallinnan tai johtamisen seurauksena. Projektijohtajat käyttävät projektin hallinnan metodeja proj...

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Main Author: Keränen, Joni
Other Authors: Informaatioteknologian tiedekunta, Faculty of Information Technology, Informaatioteknologia, Information Technology, Jyväskylän yliopisto, University of Jyväskylä
Format: Bachelor's thesis
Language:eng
Published: 2018
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Online Access: https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/59054
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description Projektin hallinta ja johtaminen ovat olennaisia tekijöitä IT-projekteissa. Näitä tekijöitä ei ole kuitenkaan tutkittu tarpeeksi tehokkaasti, sillä suuri osa ITprojekteista epäonnistuu huonon projektin hallinnan tai johtamisen seurauksena. Projektijohtajat käyttävät projektin hallinnan metodeja projektin omistavan organisaation toimesta. Projektin hallintaa on tutkittu intensiivisesti, jotta voitaisiin saavuttaa sekä suurin mahdollinen suorituskyky projekteille, että paras mahdollinen laatu projektien tuotteille. Hallinnolliset osa-alueet kuten prosessien hallinta ovat hyvin tarkasti määriteltyjä ja niitä varten on kehitetty useita erilaisia työkaluja. Johtamisen ominaispiirteitä kuten projektitiimiin kohdistuvaa vaikuttamista ja ihmistenvälisten suhteiden luomista varten ei kuitenkaan ole sellaisia työkaluja. Tämä johtuu siitä, ettei näiden merkitystä ja vaikutusta ole määritetty tarkasti. Tutkielmassa selvitettiin johtamisen ominaisuuksien vaikutuksia projektien tekemiseen ja onnistumiseen aikaisempaan kirjallisuuteen perustuen. Tämä tutkielma keskittyi johtamisen ominaispiirteisiin projektin hallinnassa. Johtamisen ominaispiirteitä tutkittiin transaktionaalisen, transformationaalisen ja servantin johtamisteorian kautta. Johtamisen tärkeimmät piirteet määritettiin näiden teorioiden kautta ja niiden vaikutusta arvioitiin suhteessa projektien suorituskykyyn ja projektien onnistumiseen. Johtamisen ominaispiirteitä ovat vaikuttaminen, visiointi, luottamus, kunnioitus tai uskottavuus, riskien jakaminen tai delegointi, yhtenäisyys sekä mallin näyttäminen. Nämä kompetenssit toistuvat useassa johtamisen vaikutukseen liittyvässä tutkimuksessa ja niillä on eroavaisia vaikutuksia IT-projekteissa. Tutkielmassa havaittiin, että näiden johtamisen ominaispiirteiden vaikutukset IT-projektin onnistumiselle ovat selkeitä. Näiden avainkompetenssien vaikutukset projektin eri vaiheisiin ovat myös huomattavia, mutta niitä on vaikea tutkia johtamisen ominaisuuksien erilaisten määritelmien takia. Asiasanat: projektin hallinta, johtaminen, IT-projektit, projektin elinkaari, johtamisen ominaispiirteet Project management and leadership are essential aspects of IT-projects. Nevertheless, these aspects of projects haven’t been studied enough, as a large amount of IT-projects fail due to the lack of qualified project management and leadership. Project management is a tool operated by project managers for the benefit of the organization conducting the projects. To ensure the maximum performance and quality products from projects, the field of project management has been studied vigorously. Managerial aspects such as process management are well defined and have numerous tools to operate them. Leadership qualities such as influencing the project team and creating interpersonal communications however do not have clearly defined frameworks, as the effects of these qualities are not fully established. This paper analyzes effects the key competencies of leadership have on project success and performance via literary review. This thesis focused on the leadership factors of project management. Leadership competencies were examined from transactional, transformational and servant leadership theories. The key qualities of leadership were defined from these leadership theories and their effects were discussed in the context of project phases and success criteria. The key qualities of leadership were influence, vision, trust, respect or credibility, risk-sharing or delegation, integrity and modeling. These qualities were identified from numerous studies and are shown to have varying impact on IT-projects. The research concluded that the effect of leadership on the success of IT-projects is apparent. The effect of leadership on different project phases is also imminent, but the key qualities all affect project performance differently and are very difficult to determine from the varying definition of leadership itself. Keywords: project management, leadership, IT-projects, project life cycle, leadership competencies
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