Redefining PM Innovation

Michael R. Wood is a Business Process Improvement & IT Strategist Independent Consultant. He is creator of the business process-improvement methodology called HELIX and founder of The Natural Intelligence Group, a strategy, process improvement and technology consulting company. He is also a CPA, has served as an Adjunct Professor in Pepperdine's Management MBA program, an Associate Professor at California Lutheran University, and on the boards of numerous professional organizations. Mr. Wood is a sought after presenter of HELIX workshops and seminars in both the U.S. and Europe.

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What’s new in the realm of project management? How are the trends and innovations shaping up in 2015 and beyond? The long and the short of it is that innovations in how projects are evaluated, approved, executed and deployed are not very impressive. In fact, if you Google things like…

• What’s new in project management
• Project management trends for 2105
• Project management innovations

…you will find little in any worthwhile articles or research. Like in the world of accounting, the principles that drive project management are pretty much defined and have been for decades. Sure you will find all sorts of information about agile and Scrum amongst PM-related data, but those are pretty much approaches to software development--not project management.

Of late, much of the improvements in the PM space are focused on portfolio management and business-driven Project Management Offices. However, there are some that have weighed in on the topic such as Andrew Makar, an IT Program Manager (and ProjectManagement.com contributor) in his blog posted on TechRepublic.com entitled “Project management trends to watch in 2014”. He makes five predictions related to how he sees project management evolving. From more integration of project management talent into business units to the expansion of the use of cloud-based PM tools, …

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