Are All We Need Heroes? -The New Role of the IT-Project Manager: -The New Role of the IT-Project Manager

Gitte Tjørnehøj; Andreas Saxkjær Jespersen; Theis  von Moos

Are All We Need Heroes? -The New Role of the IT-Project Manager: -The New Role of the IT-Project Manager

Gitte Tjørnehøj, Andreas Saxkjær Jespersen, Theis von Moos

Centre for Information Systems Management

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More and more software firms adopt agile methods into their practice to become more flexible and increase their speed to market. To get the best from both worlds, they often choses to balance agility with traditional approaches. This complicates the job for especially the project managers. This paper investigates the new project manager role of balanced systems development by building a theoretically based framework and render it probable through two case studies. The paper describes the complexity of the new role and how it may lead to overload of the project manager. Solutions inspired by agility and ambidexterity are sketched.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Project Management Theory Meets Practice
Editors	Jan Pries-Heje, Per Svejvig
Place of Publication	Samfundslitteratur
Publication date	21 May 2015
ISBN (Electronic)	9788778674661
Publication status	Published - 21 May 2015
Event	1st Danish Project Management Research Conference - København, Denmark Duration: 20 May 2016 → 21 May 2016 http://www.danskprojektledelse.dk/index.php?id=3648

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Conference	1st Danish Project Management Research Conference
Country/Territory	Denmark
City	København
Period	20/05/2016 → 21/05/2016
Internet address	http://www.danskprojektledelse.dk/index.php?id=3648

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Are All We Need Heroes? -The New Role of the IT-Project Manager: -The New Role of the IT-Project Manager. / Tjørnehøj, Gitte; Jespersen, Andreas Saxkjær; von Moos, Theis.
Project Management Theory Meets Practice. ed. / Jan Pries-Heje; Per Svejvig. Samfundslitteratur, 2015.

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