Effects of Different Project Management
MASARYK UNIVERSITY BRNO
FAKULTY OF INFORMATICS
Effects of Different Project Management
Methods on Team Performance
Master’s Thesis
Bc. Tibor Szabó
Brno, 2012
Declaration
I declare that this Master’s thesis is my original work and that I have written it independently. All sources and literature that I have used during elaboration of the thesis are correctly cited with complete reference to the corresponding sources.
Tibor Szabó
Supervisor: doc. RNDr. Tomáš Pitner, Ph.D.
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Acknowledgement
I would like to thank my supervisor doc. RNDR. Tomáš Pitner, Ph.D. for his valuable advice. I also want to thank my colleagues at InQool a.s. and partners at Kurzor s.r.o. and Celebrio software s.r.o. for their responsiveness and input.
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Abstract
Effiency of project management is a very actual topic among key executive managers in the information technology industry. Moreover investigating how different project management approaches influence the performance and motivation of employees is a subject of interest of many leaders and managers. Considering a team as a fundamental unit of a company brings new views and approches to standard managerial methods. In the first part of this thesis a continual description of key elements is included that affect the team, motivation and performance of companies. The final part of this thesis contains an in-depth analysis of various project management approches used in InQool a.s. company. Furthermore are included detailed results of a case study and research that was conducted among progressive technological companies located in Brno, Czech republic.
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Keywords
Project management, team, team management, performance, performance management, performance metrics, motivation, lean, agile
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Contents
1 Introduction ....................................................................................................... 2
2 The Team
FAKULTY OF INFORMATICS
Effects of Different Project Management
Methods on Team Performance
Master’s Thesis
Bc. Tibor Szabó
Brno, 2012
Declaration
I declare that this Master’s thesis is my original work and that I have written it independently. All sources and literature that I have used during elaboration of the thesis are correctly cited with complete reference to the corresponding sources.
Tibor Szabó
Supervisor: doc. RNDr. Tomáš Pitner, Ph.D.
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Acknowledgement
I would like to thank my supervisor doc. RNDR. Tomáš Pitner, Ph.D. for his valuable advice. I also want to thank my colleagues at InQool a.s. and partners at Kurzor s.r.o. and Celebrio software s.r.o. for their responsiveness and input.
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Abstract
Effiency of project management is a very actual topic among key executive managers in the information technology industry. Moreover investigating how different project management approaches influence the performance and motivation of employees is a subject of interest of many leaders and managers. Considering a team as a fundamental unit of a company brings new views and approches to standard managerial methods. In the first part of this thesis a continual description of key elements is included that affect the team, motivation and performance of companies. The final part of this thesis contains an in-depth analysis of various project management approches used in InQool a.s. company. Furthermore are included detailed results of a case study and research that was conducted among progressive technological companies located in Brno, Czech republic.
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Keywords
Project management, team, team management, performance, performance management, performance metrics, motivation, lean, agile
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Contents
1 Introduction ....................................................................................................... 2
2 The Team
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