Priya PatraDelivery Director| Capgemini India Technology Services LtdMumbai, India
The future is digital.. and it is here. In the last few years this trend towards digital disruption has accelerated. In order to maintain relevance, businesses must encourage innovation and agility. The generation of business value requires agility innovative thinking and innovative action. With SMACT ( Social, Mobile, Analytics, Cloud and the things) there is vast amount of data that is generated and consumed. Does this mean there a shift in the way we build solutions ? Is it time to rethink project management ? What role would a project manager play in the digital future ? Saving Changes...
Priya PatraDelivery Director| Capgemini India Technology Services LtdMumbai, India
Sep 29, 2017 12:12 PM
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I'm with Sergio. We have had a tendency to add new names for things that have been around for some time.
As business continues to evolve, so will the projects we manage.
Thanks Stephane ! Rightly said .. As business continues to evolve, so will the projects we manage, so will the project management ( I added the last part :)). What according to you are three top most things that a project manager needs to focus on to keep evolving, the field of project management while sticking to the basics ?
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Sep 30, 2017 4:42 AM
Stéphane Parent
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As a project manager, you evolve your discipline and profession through broadening, not deepening,your skills, by constantly challenging the status quo in yourself and the organizations you serve, and, most of all, by reflecting evolving business needs into your own practice.
Thank you Peter for your response. I am glad we all think Project management is ever green. Having said that how can we leverage digital for project managers to ensure that the projects we drive, we execute are delivered with quality and value ?
Priya, as I outlined in my earlier response to your key question whether project management need to be rethink, I am of the opinion that the overall project management framework with the known processes are still valid and important.
What needs to be considered in such kind of projects is an E2E view on all releavnt layers starting from very technical up to OCM. As this projects do have a high degree of adaptive project scenarios agile practises play also an important role. Please refer also to the below link:
https://www.projectmanagement.com/blog-pos...-Transformation Saving Changes...
Stéphane ParentSelf Employed / Semi-retired| Leader MakerPrince Edward Island, Canada
Sep 29, 2017 11:36 PM
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Thanks Stephane ! Rightly said .. As business continues to evolve, so will the projects we manage, so will the project management ( I added the last part :)). What according to you are three top most things that a project manager needs to focus on to keep evolving, the field of project management while sticking to the basics ?
As a project manager, you evolve your discipline and profession through broadening, not deepening,your skills, by constantly challenging the status quo in yourself and the organizations you serve, and, most of all, by reflecting evolving business needs into your own practice. Saving Changes...
Ruth HowcroftProgramme Manager - Software development| CACI LtdTwickenham, United Kingdom
I don't think that project management is affected by the 'digital future'. Digital just offers a new set of tools (in fact some have been available for decades) to use and new considerations in terms of design, delivery or risks (security, technology to use, etc). Saving Changes...
All these stuff are new buzzwords. It is not true that the future is digital. Digital is there from 1990 and before. Form 1986 the key was thinking on organizational architecture mainly creating a business layer that was be able to accept multiple interfaces to access the business functions. And about data, the key is understanding all related to data warehouse environments. So, the future is not digital. The future and the present is to have the organization ready to accept any type of change and to create change which is the basement of Agile definition created in 1990 inside the USA DoD NSF/Agility Forum. How the project manger will survive? In the same way as today: making abstractions, focused in project management activities, taking knowledge without trying to be a subject matter expert on a technical/business field.
Sergio is right!
Priya has embraced all the current fad gibberish.
Digital computers emerged from the 1940s and digital data communications has been around almost as long.
What has happened is simply that (digital) computers have got faster, cheaper and smaller and (digital) data communications has got faster and cheaper with better mediums such as fibre and wireless.
This has simply enabled new business models (where the disruption comes in) and use of (digital) computing and data transmission in previously uneconomic or even infeasible applications.
Its called technological progress.
The Project Manager will manage new types of Information Technology and Data Communications Projects involving Digital Technology as they have since the 1950s. They will have the same concerns as they have always have and newer, improved techniques will emerge. Along with a lot of snake-oil. Saving Changes...
Will PribleDirector| CoastalFrankfort, Ky, United States
Sergio said it perfectly. I'd add that in IT, AGILE has a bigger home now more than ever because of the pace at which IT projects can be built. It's much easier to say, does this look right? and review how a build is going on a daily or even hourly basis. Saving Changes...
Project management evolved from pen and paper to digital has we know it now, it will continu to evolve and integrate new technologies.
Likely some level of AI will be integrated in software sooner than later Saving Changes...
