Book chapter
Project Management in Student Information Technology Projects
Online and distance learning : concepts, methodologies, tools, and applications, pp.1961-1975
Information Science Reference
2008
Abstract
Universities teach project management to information technology (IT) students. The project management principles that students previously have learned often are put into practice in a project course that is intended to give final-year students the experience of applying their knowledge to real or simulated projects. This article reports on research that investigated the use and usefulness of project management in student IT projects. The results show that there was a wide range in the application of project management practices, with students being more likely to produce the initial documentation associated with some of the project management knowledge areas than to make use of it throughout the project to monitor the project’s progress. The results also showed that the number of project management guidelines applied in student projects was not linked to IT project success. However, there was a strong relationship between project management plan quality and obtaining a good software product.
Details
- Title
- Project Management in Student Information Technology Projects
- Authors/Creators
- M.D. Rojas (Author/Creator)T.J. McGill (Author/Creator)A. Depickere (Author/Creator)
- Contributors
- L. Tomei (Editor)
- Publication Details
- Online and distance learning : concepts, methodologies, tools, and applications, pp.1961-1975
- Publisher
- Information Science Reference; Hershey, PA
- Identifiers
- 991005541510107891
- Copyright
- (c) IGI Global
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Information Technology
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
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