Ahead of the Curve: The Future of Project Management Starts....Now!

  PM Network  

The cataclysmic economic events of last year slammed into every organization out there—yet most of the greatest minds in business never saw it coming.

You just never know.

But that doesn’t mean project managers can afford to keep toiling away in their bubbles, never bothering to think about what’s down the road—especially these days.

The slump will undoubtedly spark seismic shifts in the way organizations are run. And that seems to be setting off a call for changes in project management itself.

Look no further than the basic project management toolkit, says Dave Prior, PMP, senior consultant at Valtech, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA. Nothing new has been added since the emergence of critical chain management—before Google, the iPod and The Agile Manifesto.

“Our entire profession has been spun on its head,” he says. “That demands new tools.”

In 2010 and the years to follow, globalization, technology, sustainability and a multitude of factors we can’t even fathom yet will continue to transform the project management landscape.

“The core values of project management are timeless and don’t change. But what does change is the external factors that we deal with,” says Elaine Bannon, chief engineer, Ford Motor Co., Dearborn, Michigan, USA and contributor to Project Management …

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