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Abstract

Nowadays, crowd sourcing becomes trend that eventually affects the way of a project is managed. The success stories of crowd sourcing are noticeable, and so are the failures. Crowd sourcing provides access to diverse and abundant talent pools with relatively low cost. A project manager can easily recruit a geographically separated unknown individual or group to perform a task. However, a project manager should understand the benefits and risks of crowd sourcing as the considerations for adopting it. Moreover, the position of recruited individual or group should be clear, whether they are part of virtual project team or just another form of outsourcing. This research reviews the current literatures on crowd sourcing and project management to study the benefits and risks of crowd sourcing, its relation to project management and how the recruited workers should be positioned in the project. The discussions of crowd sourcing and project management are specifically focused on project attributes.