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Project management is not a discipline easily mastered by reading books or memorizing formulas. At McDonald's, an apprenticeship program emphasized structured mentoring and skills validation to accelerate the integration of project management theory into on-the-job expertise.
This is a great time for the discipline of project management. Organizations of all sizes want the productivity, quality and revenue-growth benefits of well-planned and well-executed projects. Consequently, demand for the services of project managers is on the rise.
The rise of project management — the vast body of knowledge, widely available training and educational opportunities, and software-based tools — presents challenges as well as opportunities. With this comprehensive infrastructure, professionals could assume that training and mastering tools will effectively lead to achieving practical project management skills. Project management, however, is not a discipline that can be easily or quickly mastered after attending classes, reading books, learning formulas, or becoming proficient with tools. Much more is required. A recent pilot program serves to illustrate this point.
Through a workforce development grant from the U.S. Department of Labor, McDonald’s Corporation piloted an apprenticeship program designed to accelerate the transformation of classroom theory to on-the-job best practices in …
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