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Have you ever read Contractor Mag.com? It's the news magazine for the Mechanical Contracting (plumbing and HVAC) industry. H. Kent Craig writes a regular column titled Craig on Project Management. In today's column Craig's article is titled, The New Project Management Paradigm. Here's how it opens:
"HOLD ON TO YOUR hats for the big winds of change headed our way sometime in the next couple decades in the way jobs are run and buildings built. The traditional sequence of "design-build-validate" project management, which has been the mainstay — if not the only way — jobs have been built for the past 100 years, has now become a suicidal strategy."
Among other things, Craig argues that buildings cost too much. That alone may bring about a change in project management. Read the article for the rest of the argument.
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He seems to be arguing that buildings in particular are becoming industrial commodities, hence operational process management will be the preferred model, rather than PM. I can’t see this being true for all buildings (only the little boxes on the hillside), let alone projects in general. This is not a new paradigm, only a much older one in an already traditionalist industry sector.