New. Shiny. Attractive. New. We just can't resist the lure of the latest and greatest gadgets. But do you really need it? How does one get to leading edge without falling over the abyss into bleeding edge? For the technically savvy and financially unrestrained, the answers are surprisingly well understood...just seldom practiced.
It’s one of the oldest debates in project management, and now there are a whole new set of arguments. What type of project manager should an organization have?
With the steady industry shift away from custom code applications to more commercial software packages and services, IT project management practices are necessarily changing to adapt to the new conditions. Is this a glimpse into what the future holds?
Project management has been a little slower to embrace the technology advancements, in part because it is still a very process-driven profession. But as technology replaces the role of the project manager in many areas, where does that leave the PM?
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