Develop Agile Leadership Competency Model to Drive Project Performance in IT Organizations | Original Article

ABSTRACT:

Leadership changes are per time and context. Technology and digitalization have caused massive disruption for organizations creating lot of complexities as well as opportunities. Accordingly, leadership needs to be re-evaluated. While lot of conceptual framework exists on what traits are needed to be an effective leader in the digital age, there is a lack of empirical evidence on how relevant these traits are to derive specific outcomes like effective project execution within time, scope and cost defined. The main objective of the research is to empirically understand the linkage between which agile leadership traits have maximum impact on overall effectiveness of executing the agile based methodology projects. As part of this, the study will understand various complexities posited by the agile world and what agile traits the leaders need to develop in the organization that drives project performance. In order to conduct the research, a comprehensive literature survey will be conducted on agile leadership characteristics, features of agile project management, traits necessary in agile age etc. Then these will be empirically tested via a questionnaire sent to ~500 participants across various software organizations in India. The results will be analyzed using various tools and methodologies like multiple regression, ANOVA testing, SPSS, Alteryx etc. which then will highlight the specific traits that drive maximum project performance and hence the customer satisfaction. Agility in leadership has become the most critical competency in leaders of the organization so that they can efficiently execute the projects and hence become more effective in providing customer their required results. Hence, this paper seeks to identify how agile leadership can certainly impact knowledge work and to discover which leadership traits need to be established to backup organizational learning, agility in the era of continuous changes and yields the maximum project performance in terms of cost, time and scope measures.