Retaining Program and Project Management Quality

Kevin Coleman is a highly skilled senior level project and program manager/advisor with experience leading projects with labor budgets ranging from a few hundred thousand dollars to multi-million dollar budgets across multiple industries.

 

What are the odds a project lead (not the project manager) would kiss an important deadline goodbye in order to enhance the quality of a key deliverable? That is a common question that comes up in traditional conversations about quality. Meeting deadlines have become so engrained in nearly everyone’s mindset that the likelihood would have to be low. That being said, this article will not address that kind of traditional quality-related issue. Instead, it will focus on a longer-term quality issue that must be addressed by program and project managers now before it is too late.

Over the past few years, I have read some studies and heard several conversations about the growing age of the U.S. workforce and the problems that are beginning to arise over the retirement of the baby boomers. Headlines like “Boomers Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out of U.S. Labor Force” have caused corporate HR departments concern and they have raised the issue to the executive level.

There has even been some data specific to project managers. Few people would dispute we have an aging workforce, and the increased number of professionals retiring can and will cause some issues. Analysis has been done and currently there is an estimate of 10,000 baby boomers retiring per day. Most researchers agree more work is needed to assess the impact of boomer retirement on the quality aspects …

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