In (Continued) Celebration of Project Managers
Andy Jordan is President of Roffensian Consulting S.A., a Roatan, Honduras-based management consulting firm with a comprehensive project management practice. Andy always appreciates feedback and discussion on the issues raised in his articles and can be reached at [email protected]. Andy's new book Risk Management for Project Driven Organizations is now available.
International Project Management (IPM) Day was, and it was 2004. The reason I looked it up was because I was thinking about how much project management has changed since that first day. And now that I realize it was over 20 years ago, it’s changed even more than I imagined.
A lot of that evolution has been positive. Project managers are generally well respected now, and that hasn’t always been the case. They are also increasingly viewed as critical parts of how organizations improve—custodians of the various initiatives that allow the enterprise to grow and succeed.
The shift from a focus on project outputs to the enablement of business outcomes has also been a significant step that has made a real difference—a difference in how PMs can succeed, and in how they are perceived.
However, let’s also recognize that there have also been some threats to the success of project management, in particular the rapid growth of AI in the last few years. I know of many PMs who are concerned that AI will replace them, and I know of some organizations that have begun to eliminate some project management positions because of the technology’s growth. (Currently, that tends to be more junior positions where there is more focus on managing the work rather than enabling business success. But today’s junior PMs are tomorrow’s portfolio and …
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