IT Project Management

Deepak Khazanchi, Ph.D
Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
College of Information Science & Technology
“IT Innovation Through Collaboration”
The Peter Kiewit Institute, PKI 172C
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Omaha, NE 68182
Voice: (402) 554-2029
Fax: (402) 554-3284
Personal URL: http://khazanchi.ist.unomaha.edu/
College: http://www.ist.unomaha.edu/
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Skype: dkhaz2009

Description

Project Management (PM) research has evolved primarily from the engineering disciplines and it is now an integral part of information technology (IT) and software development activities. For example, a quick search of the AISWorld Faculty Directory on the keyword “project management” returns over 200 names. Both IT project management researchers and practitioners are facing challenges that cover a large range of topics that cut across many IS/IT areas, including virtual project management, agile project management, knowledge networks, project management methodologies, distributed project management, project leadership, project quality metrics, project management standards, best practices in project management, and project success.

Keeping in mind the phenomenal growth of interest in IT project management and its highly interdisciplinary nature, the Association for Information Systems (AIS) Special Interest Group for Information Technology Project Management (SIGITProjMgmt) is pleased to sponsor a track on IT Project Management at ECIS 2011 that hopes to feature research papers and panels that focus on problems that cut across many traditional IT Project Management areas. These areas include, but are not limited to, the following topics:

  • Theories used in project management
  • Virtual and distributed project management
  • Agile project management
  • Knowledge networks
  • Project management methodologies
  • Project leadership
  • Project quality metrics
  • Best practices in project management
  • Project management standards
  • Project success
  • Knowledge sharing and management in IT projects

Other cross-cutting topics

The track solicits high-quality conceptual and empirical contributions that attempt to advance theory and application of project management using any research approach (action research, experimental, grounded theory, design science, case studies, survey research, theory development, prototyping, methodology development, PM tool development, etc.).