Managing organizational priorities

Abstract

Presents a schedule for the alignment of personal needs and priorities with organizational needs and priorities. By considering leadership, coaching, corporate citizenship, change management, efficiency, team working, customer focus, and decision making, individuals can compile an action plan for professional and organizational change, ensuring that one is not at the expense of the other. Features a number of models to encourage reflection and discussion as well as assessment instruments to aid immediate practical development.

A Model for Aligning Software Projects Requirements with Project Team Members Requirements

“…On the other hand, a people-oriented manager makes sure that employees' needs are taken into consideration in the process of pursuing project goals. This is in line with viewing employees as important and critical clients to success of a project [4]. Furthermore, [11] state:…”

“…This means that an organization should have an appropriate or an acceptable degree of people focus. The importance of having people focus in a project is informed by the fact that team members have an immense contribution in achieving project objectives [3] [4]. This contention is also supported by [5], who states that the ever changing demands of businesses are better met by teams.…”

“…For example, given the fast-paced and rapid changes in ICT environment, an organization may want to complete a project within the set time in order for it to be first in the market with the product that will be created by the project. Such projects' needs are common these days because the marketplace gets more and more competitive [4]. However, such needs may probably require project team members to work extra hours.…”

“…When organizations deal with employees' complains caused by software project demands based on organizational needs or projects' requirements, they tend to react in a way that causes tensions between management and employees [4]. A project manager is expected to make key decisions on various project matters and such decisions have impact on the project outcome.…”

“…The aim is to ensure that project team members' needs are identified and then satisfied accordingly in order to keep individual project team members motivated [8] for maximum performance. Moreover, it is also intended understanding employee's individual needs and not only project's needs, in order to influence professional behaviour of employees and also to benefit both stakeholders [4]. At the same time, a project manager is expected to fully understand project's needs which express business needs.…”