Can the Reform of Project Management Succeed?
January 28th, 2003 by HalCan the inertia of project management be overcome? The editors of Project Management World Today Web Magazine say no.
We predict that the Project Management is going to change as little in the next 10 years as it has in the last 20. Oh, the project management "industry" will advance its knowledge and its products. And its numbers: Hoards of enthusiastic people will obtain some form of professional "certification".
We can hope for more standardization of nomenclature.. perhaps. And maybe even certifications that have some relationship to competence.But in practice, it's not going to change without a paradigm shift in management thinking. Unfortunately we don't see any factors - internal or external, rewards or consequences - that will precipitate such an order-of-magnitude leap in management awareness and commitment.
What do you think? Please share your view in a comment to this posting.
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January 28th, 2003 at 8:18 pm
Hi Hal,
I sure hope he is wrong. Personally, I think the project management theory is dated and needs to graduate to take advantage of the latest tools and knowledge. Personally, am a big fan of controlling variability and providing visibility by drawing analogies and learning from SCM tools that manufacturing industries use. There is a lot of inefficiency in the system that can be squeezed out provided change management can be handled.
February 8th, 2003 at 4:28 am
This editorial pointed to another article which I highly recommend:
A Long Term View of Project Management : Its Past and Its Likely Future at:
http://www.pmforum.org/library/papers/MARTIN%20BARNES%20Berlin%20June%202002%20revised%20post%20conference.htm