Hypothesis: relative to the emergence of digitization in business operations, the role, methodology and value-add of the PM (or PgM or PMO or PPM) is not different today than when CAD/CAM revolutioni
Michael HerskovitzBusiness Transformation Program Management| BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBBPhiladelphia, Pa, United States
I am reacting to the many articles I see that proclaim that, as PMs (or PgMs, or PMO, or PPM), we need to do something different in light of the explosive introduction of digitization into business operations. On the contrary, I believe that, like earlier times when revolutionary technologies were introduced to business, our role and value-add is our steadfast practice and application of what we coined PMBOK principles. Saving Changes...
Yes, we need to understand or at least accept that technologies will evolve or be introduced, which is an indirect responsibility of the role, but not the core responsibility. Saving Changes...
Although I would say that gaining domain expertise within our industry includes sufficient awareness and curiosity around how digitization could be leveraged to improve a given project's outcomes.
Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten AssociatesNew Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
Totally agree with Sante Saving Changes...
Philippe SchulerSenior Instructor/Lecturer in Project/Program/Account PMO Management| Independant ConsultantLes Choux, France
I fully agree. The value-added of the PM is not different today especially when he/she recognizes how any technological progress can enable improvements. Saving Changes...
Rajeev SharmaPrincipal Consultant | Strategy, EA CoE | Digital Transformation, AI and Gen-AI| Tech MahindraGurgaon, Haryana, India
Digitization, RPA, Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning is changing character of every industry and projects delivery formats.
DevOps (Development Operation) is another area which is evolving to change management philosophies around newly evolving technology eco system.
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Sergio Luis ConteHelping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based OrganizationsBuenos Aires, Argentina
Well, you did not read my post in several forums (hehehehe). You have to do NOTHING different. Unfortunately words like Digital Transformation, Big Data, Agile (and all those derivations on methods, frameworks and scalation) including well established things like AI becomes buzzwords today. All these stuff are outside there from 1985. I worked, I am working, I researched, I am researching on that fields from 1980 up to date. In some of them, for a reason of fate of destiny, I have the opportunity to work from "the genesis". Let me give you an example from today: in my actual work place we have five different project life cycles defined plus 2 of them tied to Agile based methods (Scrum and DSDM). The same program/project manager is working at the same time with initiatives that uses one of those different life cycles at the same time. Saving Changes...
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