The research needs to be graduate level and needs to have proper links and resources included. No plagiarism please! Running on a tight timeline here so I need the paper by Midnight on Friday.

1) Please list 3 insights that you have noted about your research topic through this exercise.

a. The topic of research is how business objectives is critical project performance. Some of the key areas are the

i. Identifying the consequences of project misalignment to business objectives

ii. Quantifying Project performance (score card or KPI’s) to outcomes that aligns with organization culture and strategy

iii. People skills and management directly impact project performance and outcomes

2) Based on these preliminary searches, has the focus of your research changed? In what way?

a. My preliminary searches around overall project performance addressed the three areas of cost, schedule and quality impacts and outcomes as key measure. Further refining the search helped me to focus on the project performance and how critical it tied to business strategy and culture. Identifying these will provide better focus for project managers and agile coaches to help organization delivery successful results. As organization are moving towards agile delivery of business value to customers this shit to measure the alignment and tracking performance based on outcomes will help organization delivery the right results. For example organization like Google and Amazon that deliver product every two weeks that addresses customer requirements.

3) Have you identified any gaps in the existing literature or recommendations for future research? (These are often found in the conclusion section of articles and research studies)

4) How does your proposed topic take a different/new approach or add to the existing body of knowledge?

a. The proposed topic will provide an additional dimension or area for project managers to evaluate the performance challenges to support the dynamic changing customer needs and help organization culture to evolve through training, communication and championing to become and outcome-based organization than documentation-based organization.