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 members of your team, and gather their feedback regarding your thoughts and ideas.

For some examples project management blogs see: http://projectnewstoday.com/2013-top-25- project-management-blogs/

Requirements

Each individual student is required to select a peer reviewed journal article from a list of areas provided on project management leadership related to the course or extending the course ideas. Each individual student is required to write a blog reviewing the journal article, providing a critique of the ideas including conclusions and lessons learned. The review should be supported by references from the literature, demonstrating wider reading and critical thinking.

A list of topic areas is provided below:

• The triple constraint

• Leadership theories

• Strategic planning

• Scrum

• Schedule estimates

• Cost estimates

• Motivating people

• Negotiation strategies

• Project control

A quality leadership blog will be clearly articulated, will be inspired by a contemporary project management leadership issue and demonstrate analysis, and a synthesis of content, knowledge, skills and ideas acquired from lectures, tutorials and academic authors.