The Rise of the Domain-Specific Project Manager?

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.

  Career Development   Organizational Project Management   Strategy  

Project managers are experiencing unending and dramatic changes. These changes create new demands for many professionals across nearly every industry. Technological advancements are a driving force behind many of these changes. They require continuously updating (and often introducing new) special knowledge and skills. This is needed for PMs to stay current with the latest advances, as well as increasing an individual’s skill set and overall value to the organization who employs them.

In order for professionals to do this and keep (or increase) their value across performance domains, they must first know what those domains are. Once they have that knowledge, they must find out where they stand. It would be interesting to find out how many PMs have created and maintained a “Performance Domain Scorecard.” As shared in A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide)—Seventh Edition, the project performance domains are basically a collection of related activities and behaviors around a specific subject topic matter:

• Delivery
• Development Approach & Lifecycle       
• Measurement
• Planning
• Project Work
• Stakeholders
• Team
• Uncertainty

Program and project managers are expected to increasingly exhibit their skills within the performance domains specifically linked with their …

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