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  1. How to Write a Literature Review

    Examples of literature reviews. Step 1 - Search for relevant literature. Step 2 - Evaluate and select sources. Step 3 - Identify themes, debates, and gaps. Step 4 - Outline your literature review's structure. Step 5 - Write your literature review.

  2. Literature review as a research methodology: An overview and guidelines

    This paper discusses literature review as a methodology for conducting research and offers an overview of different types of reviews, as well as some guidelines to how to both conduct and evaluate a literature review paper. ... 2009), the semi-systematic review process requires more development and tailoring to the specific project (Wong et al ...

  3. A Systematic Literature Review of Project Management Tools and Their

    CHAPTER 2. LITERATURE REVIEW . The purpose of this literature review was to examine the research conducted within the field of project management to identify the most successful tool and methods for managing them. This will add to the body of project management knowledge and be useful for developing suggestions for areas of further research.

  4. Methodological Approaches to Literature Review

    The literature review can serve various functions in the contexts of education and research. It aids in identifying knowledge gaps, informing research methodology, and developing a theoretical framework during the planning stages of a research study or project, as well as reporting of review findings in the context of the existing literature.

  5. Project Management Methodologies: A Review of the Literature

    A review of the literature concerning five prominent project management methodologies will be discussed in the following sections. These methodologies include: Agile, Prince2, Six Sigma, System Development Life Cycle (SDLC), and Waterfall.

  6. Guidance on Conducting a Systematic Literature Review

    Literature reviews establish the foundation of academic inquires. However, in the planning field, we lack rigorous systematic reviews. In this article, through a systematic search on the methodology of literature review, we categorize a typology of literature reviews, discuss steps in conducting a systematic literature review, and provide suggestions on how to enhance rigor in literature ...

  7. Comprehensive Review of Agile Methodologies in Project Management

    body of knowledge on Agile methodologies, highlighting their evolution, principles, and diverse. applications in project management. The methodology of this review involves a systematic. analysis ...

  8. PDF METHODOLOGY OF THE LITERATURE REVIEW

    In the field of research, the term method represents the specific approaches and procedures that the researcher systematically utilizes that are manifested in the research design, sampling design, data collec-tion, data analysis, data interpretation, and so forth. The literature review represents a method because the literature reviewer chooses ...

  9. Impact of Agile Methodology Use on Project Success in ...

    A systematic literature review aims at summarizing the evidence and identifying gaps that already exist with regards to the study in ... A., Zuva, T. (2020). Impact of Agile Methodology Use on Project Success in Organizations - A Systematic Literature Review. In: Silhavy, R., Silhavy, P., Prokopova, Z. (eds) Software Engineering Perspectives in ...

  10. What is a Literature Review?

    A literature review is a survey of scholarly sources on a specific topic. It provides an overview of current knowledge, allowing you to identify relevant theories, methods, and gaps in the existing research. There are five key steps to writing a literature review: Search for relevant literature. Evaluate sources. Identify themes, debates and gaps.

  11. Steps in Conducting a Literature Review

    A literature review is an integrated analysis-- not just a summary-- of scholarly writings and other relevant evidence related directly to your research question.That is, it represents a synthesis of the evidence that provides background information on your topic and shows a association between the evidence and your research question.

  12. Writing a literature review

    Writing a literature review requires a range of skills to gather, sort, evaluate and summarise peer-reviewed published data into a relevant and informative unbiased narrative. Digital access to research papers, academic texts, review articles, reference databases and public data sets are all sources of information that are available to enrich ...

  13. (PDF) Literature Review as a Research Methodology: An overview and

    Literature reviews allow scientists to argue that they are expanding current. expertise - improving on what already exists and filling the gaps that remain. This paper demonstrates the literatu ...

  14. Writing a Literature Review

    A literature review can be a part of a research paper or scholarly article, usually falling after the introduction and before the research methods sections. ... find gaps in existing research in order to propose new projects, and/or develop a theoretical framework and methodology for later research. As a publication, a lit review usually is ...

  15. Project Methodologies' Impact on Project Success in Different Contexts

    This is supported in a recent literature review of project success factors (Khan & Turner, 2013) where 2 of 74 success factors variables identified, are directly related to methodologies as follows: Experience with using methodologies; ... This section reviews the literature on project methodologies, the impact of project context moderating ...

  16. Integrated Project Delivery: A Literature Review and ...

    The IPD methodology is based on collaboration between all the participants in a project and seeks to identify and eliminate waste in all construction activities. Motivated by IPD's potential, this paper systematically reviews the literature in order to structure concepts linked to the approach.

  17. How To Write A Literature Review (+ Free Template)

    As mentioned above, writing your literature review is a process, which I'll break down into three steps: Finding the most suitable literature. Understanding, distilling and organising the literature. Planning and writing up your literature review chapter. Importantly, you must complete steps one and two before you start writing up your chapter.

  18. (PDF) Literature review as a research methodology: An overview and

    This. paper discusses literature review as a methodology for conducting research and o ffers an overview of different. types of reviews, as well as some guidelines to how to both conduct and ...

  19. What is a Literature Review? How to Write It (with Examples)

    A literature review is a critical analysis and synthesis of existing research on a particular topic. It provides an overview of the current state of knowledge, identifies gaps, and highlights key findings in the literature. 1 The purpose of a literature review is to situate your own research within the context of existing scholarship ...

  20. How To Structure A Literature Review (Free Template)

    Demonstrate your knowledge of the research topic. Identify the gaps in the literature and show how your research links to these. Provide the foundation for your conceptual framework (if you have one) Inform your own methodology and research design. To achieve this, your literature review needs a well-thought-out structure.

  21. Literature Review: The What, Why and How-to Guide

    Example: Predictors and Outcomes of U.S. Quality Maternity Leave: A Review and Conceptual Framework: 10.1177/08948453211037398 ; Systematic review: "The authors of a systematic review use a specific procedure to search the research literature, select the studies to include in their review, and critically evaluate the studies they find." (p. 139).

  22. PDF LITERATURE REVIEWS

    WHAT IS A LITERATURE REVIEW? PURPOSES OF A LITERATURE REVIEW. 1. orient your reader by defining key concepts (theoretical) and/or providing relevant background (empirical) 2. "motivate" your research, i.e. demonstrating the relevance of your project. ¡ contribute effectively to science, a collective knowledge-building enterprise.

  23. Chapter 9 Methods for Literature Reviews

    9.3. Types of Review Articles and Brief Illustrations. EHealth researchers have at their disposal a number of approaches and methods for making sense out of existing literature, all with the purpose of casting current research findings into historical contexts or explaining contradictions that might exist among a set of primary research studies conducted on a particular topic.

  24. [2405.01569] A Systematic Literature Review on Reasons and Approaches

    Background: Accurate effort estimation is crucial for planning in Agile iterative development. Agile estimation generally relies on consensus-based methods like planning poker, which require less time and information than other formal methods (e.g., COSMIC) but are prone to inaccuracies. Understanding the common reasons for inaccurate estimations and how proposed approaches can assist ...

  25. Mitigating the effects of delay risk in building construction projects

    2.1. Delays in construction project. Project delay can be defined as an incident that causes an extension in the time for the completion of all or part of a particular project (Chan & Kumaraswamy, Citation 2014).The delay can also be defined as the time overrun, either ahead of the date for the completion of the project as specified by the contract or further than the extended contract period ...

  26. [2405.00832] Teaching Algorithm Design: A Literature Review

    Teaching Algorithm Design: A Literature Review. Algorithm design is a vital skill developed in most undergraduate Computer Science (CS) programs, but few research studies focus on pedagogy related to algorithms coursework. To understand the work that has been done in the area, we present a systematic survey and literature review of CS Education ...

  27. JCM

    Methods: An inventory semi-structured survey was performed among urologists of the EAU Young Academic Urologists Urothelial Cancer working group to describe the organization of follow-up. ... "Variation in Follow-Up after Radical Cystectomy for Bladder Cancer—An Inventory Roundtable and Literature Review" Journal of Clinical Medicine 13, no ...

  28. A systematic literature review on social innovation for sustainable

    This study analyses issues faced during the pre-implementation and implementation stages of the social innovation (SI) process, which is considered an effective approach to addressing sustainable development (SD) challenges. Specifically, it presents the results of a rigorous literature review and analysis of 55 English and Chinese-language articles on Chinese SI published through the end of ...

  29. Deep Sea Mining

    This Issues Note provides a review of the latest literature on specific topics that are of relevance to UNEP's mandate as outlined in "The future we want: outcome of the Conference on Sustainable Development, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 20-22 June 2012; paragraph 88". It also presents a set of agreed approaches and recommendations regarding UNEP's communication of the subject matter. Deep ...

  30. Biden Administration Moves to Speed Up Permits for Clean Energy

    The Biden administration on Tuesday released rules designed to speed up permits for clean energy while requiring federal agencies to more heavily weigh damaging effects on the climate and on low ...