Project Management

Review: PM Circa 2025

Jen Girdish
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Project Management Institute asked 41 practitioners from around the globe to describe the future for project management in various applications and environments. Here’s a concise look at the 519-page book that resulted.

 
Edited by project management dignitaries David Cleland, Ph.D., and Bopaya Bidanda, Ph.D., Project Management Circa 2025 (Project Management Institute) brings good news and bad news. Fifteen years from now, the demand for project management skills will increase, technology may make lawyers obsolete for day-to-day functions, and flex work environments will be the norm. Increasing globalization means that there will be more pressure to do things faster, better, and cheaper.
 
The book is divided into five sections that illustrate the following aspects of future project management: geographic and industrial applications, systems applications, organizational applications, government and trends. Each section plants the reader in the current practice of project management and then paints a changed — or sometimes an inherently consistent — key to the future.
 
Section One presents a detailed view of project management in Spain, India, the Pacific Rim, and Europe. Big expansion opportunities in project management exist in India, Melanesia and Italy. This section contains a lot of global growth information, but tends to be uneven …

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