Ethics, Professionalism and Manners

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.

  Estimating   Ethics  

Few people would dispute that we live and work in a rapidly changing world. Based on current analysis, it is highly likely the pace of change will accelerate. That acceleration is likely to put increased pressure on program and project managers.

In some cases, that increased pressure is difficult to cope with and requires program and project managers to change. The practice of program and project management has evolved over the years--and continues to evolve in attempts to keep up with society, law, technology and the norms of the occupation. That is what is driving expectations around the practice of program and project management, and the demand to keep up is increasing.

One authority on this subject referred to the consequences as “big changes fast,” and that will make the changes difficult to absorb and internalize. The increased pressures that program and project managers will face may come into direct or indirect conflict with ethics, professionalism and morals.

The Law Dictionary defines “ethics” as:

“Directives based on one's ethics and morality. How one lives with others. The foremost concepts and principles of proper human conduct. Socially, it is the collective of universal values, treating each human equally, acknowledging human and natural rights, obeying the law of land, showing health and safety concerns, caring for …

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