"Project Managers" are on the verge of extinction?

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Luis Branco CEO| Business Insight, Consultores de Gestão, Ldª Carcavelos, Lisboa, Portugal

I had the opportunity to read an article on Linkedin:
"Project Managers" are on the verge of extinction, come in "Solutions Manager"

What is your opinion on this topic?

Posted: Feb 12, 2020 6:04 AM

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Luis Branco CEO| Business Insight, Consultores de Gestão, Ldª Carcavelos, Lisboa, Portugal

Feb 13, 2020 7:32 AM

Replying to Al Taylor

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good discussion...I know of a very large Canadian FI firm that has basically put a bullet to the BA and PM career paths and now talks of Value Streams as opposed to projects.

fyi I just purchased the domain www.solutionsmanagement.com Our first monthly topic will be the difference between project management and solutions delivery...good luck!

Dear Al
Thank you for participating in this reflection and for your opinion

Very interesting what you wrote:
"I know of a very large Canadian FI firm that has basically put a bullet to the BA and PM career paths and now talks of Value Streams as opposed to projects"

Posted: Feb 13, 2020 7:58 AM

Luis Branco CEO| Business Insight, Consultores de Gestão, Ldª Carcavelos, Lisboa, Portugal

Feb 13, 2020 7:51 AM

Replying to Kiron Bondale

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PMs will usually develop complementary skill sets through the projects they manage, but as far as whether their also being able to be BAs and CMs is a trend, I'd say that's likely specific to certain companies where these other roles aren't well defined.

At the end of the day each of these disciplines is a set of competencies and you can mix and match them up to create whatever roles make sense within the delivery approaches used by a specific company.

Dear Kiron
Thank you for sharing your opinion with us

Makes sense to me :-)

Posted: Feb 13, 2020 8:06 AM

Peter Rapin Subject Matter Expect; Project Delivery| Independent Consultant Ontario, Canada

Gentlemen; Let's go back to the basic purpose of a project - a response (solution) to a challenge (need). In the good old days things were more linear than they are now. A need was defined, the analysts developed a solution and the project manager delivered the specified solution - "the company saw an opportunity to provide more product, the solution was to build another factory". This model was based on the concept that the need and solution were fixed. Simple and linear! Minor adjustments were addressed through change management which the PM was to resist at all costs. Control scope, cost and time was the PMs primary objective.
It has now been accepted that needs evolve as the project advances.and the initial solution may no longer apply. The analyst and the PM (implementer) have to work concurrently. The final deliverable has to satisfy the ultimate need.
Some may see this as a combined position (analyst [BA] and implementer [PM]) but i see it as two distinct, and at times, conflicting roles. Under one hat there is a real risk of never delivering - can't build it until we know what we want; don't know what we want until its delivered (Catch 22?).
I don't see either position or role disappearing or even merging. However, closer collaboration is imperative.

Posted: Feb 13, 2020 10:42 AM

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