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Effective Project Leadership in Computer Science and Engineering

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Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2009 (ICCSA 2009)

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Project leaders are the most important individuals in projects. A project leader should follow some thinking styles and values which can lead his or her team to success. There is a common notion among software specialists that the more complex a project manager thinks, the better his leadership is. In this paper, we discuss the significance of simple thinking in project leadership. If the leader thinks in a simple way, then the risk of being suffocated in details is less. Complex thinking brings out greater risks of losing the general control of the system because of spending too much time and effort on details and, as a result, more confusion. Not only simplicity, but also psychological factors are important in guiding teams and developing projects in the most effective way. Here, we present a set of qualities for a good project leader in software engineering. In addition to that, we also demonstrate how cognitive and ethical issues affect leadership qualities.

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  1. Faculty of Engineering, Department of Computer Engineering, Atilim University, Ankara, Turkey

    Ferid Cafer & Sanjay Misra

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  1. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Perugia, Via Vanvitelli, 1, 06123, Perugia, Italy

    Osvaldo Gervasi

  2. School of Business Systems, Clayton, Monash University, 3800, Victoria, Australia

    David Taniar

  3. L.I.S.U.T. - D.A.P.I.T., University of Basilicata, Viale dell’Ateneo Lucano 10, 85100, Potenza, Italy

    Beniamino Murgante

  4. Department of Chemistry, University of Perugia, Via Elce di Sotto, 8, 06123, Perugia, Italy

    Antonio Laganà

  5. School of Computing, Computer Communication Laboratory, SoongSil University, 1-1 Sang-do 5 Dong, Dong-jak Ku, 156-743, Seoul, Korea

    Youngsong Mun

  6. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive N.W., T2N 1N4, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Marina L. Gavrilova

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Cafer, F., Misra, S. (2009). Effective Project Leadership in Computer Science and Engineering. In: Gervasi, O., Taniar, D., Murgante, B., Laganà, A., Mun, Y., Gavrilova, M.L. (eds) Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2009. ICCSA 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5593. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02457-3_5

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