2008 was an eventful, prosperous year for the practice of project management, project management services and solutions providers:
- Several independent entities merged with larger and more new small businesses with innovative technologies emerged in the scene. Given the poor image of the macro, the amount of M & A and start of activity in this field shows the amount of interest and how much more must be done to improve project management.
- What it does not in demand? Approval of the letter emerged in 2008 and is now the standard way to implement project management software. In fact, the tables have turned. Sellers who offer no solutions to the letter to look out of place and out of touch with the market.
- Management of the project continued to gain credibility as a legitimate profession that is much needed in today s complex project, the labor market realities and regulatory requirements.
- Working distance, virtual offices, work from home, are now almost as accepted as the work of the offices in a growing number of industries and job types. It is now common to find ways to work that account for some work being done from a home office.
The stage is set for some exciting changes in the world of project management. In a series of three, ten discuss possible trends of project management that can be more prominent in 2009.
# 10. The increase of the correlation between the Management and Operational Excellence
I used to be that senior executives of the company as CEO, CFO and board members generally stay away from decisions related to project management. The expectation was that CIO, COO and other executives of the operation to ensure that the company has effective management practices for the projects. In fact, most of the executives in general management of the project as something that the technicians, field-level workers and middle-level managers should be concerned.
In today s highly competitive world map, China wall between the executive and operations has been broken. In 2009, we will continue to see increasing sponsorship, partnership and direct involvement of senior executives in project management initiatives. Top executives have come to appreciate the direct relationship between the processes of effective project management, best practices and tools, and operational excellence. This task is not delegated and is considered a tactic. Senior executives and board members view the project management improvement initiatives as a strategic investment.
# 9. The CFO and Project Manager of Friendship
Increasingly, project-based service-oriented economy has resulted in more complex customer and billing. For the institution of charges, including internal departments have to justify their cost, efficiency and gain business from other entities within the same organization. Accordingly, for the measurement of CFOs project value and the recognition of income under various generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) cost accounting and revenue recognition has become a more normative task of enormous proportions.
The complexity of calculating the value of the project have created unprecedented links between financial executives and project managers who have to work together to produce indisputable value of projects that can withstand the various forms of potential financial and project audits of the a. organization may be subjected Given current trends, the CFO or the project management of the alliance is likely to grow stronger in 2009.
# 8. The Rise of the Project Working
More and more people choose the projects they want to work instead of the company they work for. Similarly, more companies are adopting the model of Hollywood for a greater percentage of its workforce. In this model, a project team met to implement quickly a well-defined objective, the team is just as quickly discharged once the project (the movie) has been completed. This flexibility makes the company and the workforce more agile in a rapidly changing competitive marketplace.
# 7. Dispersed customers, projects and teams to Kill Policy
The world and access to the pool of talent at the global level has significantly changed the internal workings and dynamics of team virtually all organizations. There are many disadvantages of working with remote team members dispersed, most of us are doing today. We tend to be happier, more loyal to the team, learn faster and achieve more when working in a team physically close to each other. In addition, there is less emotional and a political team dispersed, people tend to pay more attention to work, equality of office and his performance ultimately dictates how they are evaluated. S The current dispersion of office equipment are increasingly the policy is undoubtedly in decline.
# 6. Finding talent is much easier
It is much more difficult to find the resources you need at the moment limited to the search for talent in a local market. The global collaboration in Internet technologies have enabled organizations to exploit the large reserves of talent at a distance at very competitive prices. For example, Tenrox, are increasingly taking advantage of specialized programmers working (probably) from their homes in Russia, Eastern Europe and the outsourcing of the stores in India. These resources are not replacing our full time staff to complement our team working on projects on a need basis. Tenrox can be flexible, not more than rent, and yet the project staff quickly when needed. Better collaboration with technology, improving the quality of global resources, and improve our own knowledge of how to handle such projects, this process is becoming much easier and rewarding to implement.
# 5. The changes in emphasis in Project Management for Management Education
The project management discipline has traditionally emphasized the science of project management. Project managers and employees are encouraged to strictly follow the template, guidelines and measures to ensure a project is executed successfully. However, despite the growing number of certified project managers and key project management tools, the projects continue to show high rates of failure, or high rates of disappointment be too late, cost too much, or not fully meet their objectives.
Numerous studies have examined why projects disappoint. Many of these studies generally conclude that a better project management, communication, stakeholder participation and the change has reduced the failure rate of control. However, as books such as built to last (Collins Business; 1 edition, November 2, 2004), while suggesting the best practices and best tools there is nothing more important than picking the most qualified and best fit of resources to implement the project (Jim Collins, who asked the right person on the bus). For the right person in the team makes it easier, in fact, increasingly the implementation process is necessary because the team members very innately know what to do and just do it. As a result, more and more organizations are investing in the documentation of resources, understanding the capacity of its resources and interests, and using more sophisticated workforce planning tools to find the best resources for their projects.
# 4. The uncertainty is the New Normal
The continuing uncertainty that we all see our work, our homes, the economy and the world in the last two years, will be with us for the foreseeable future. The credit crisis, terrorism, climate change, wars will continue and prolonged direct and indirect impact on our lives, our psyche. However, with the man s remarkable ability to adapt to any situation that we are starting to get used to it! When all this war and economic turmoil began, I remember how shocked and surprised me every time you turn on the TV. Now, I do not see so much bad news more predictable, and when I do, I know it's bad .... so it really does not bother me nearly as much as it used to.
# 3. The rapid growth of web services
The business model of almost all large companies are under attack monolithic. The Web has allowed the small, fast-moving, low-cost global competitors to emerge almost overnight. This is especially true in the enterprise software space. Small companies with great expertise in a particular area of the problem are able to build and deliver solutions based on Web services to solve customer pain point in time s a cost factor faster than the ERP / supplier. Never improved collaboration, Web services and integration technologies that this trend will only accelerate in 2009.
# 2. Enterprise Software Technology pollinated gains momentum
Web services and new technologies to create a powerful wave of seemingly perpetual innovation productivity tools. One of the most recent developments are beginning to gain more momentum has been increasing in the software of the hybrid technology. Here are some examples (with varying degrees of success):
ERP offers integration and analysis
Project management vendors to integrate the management capability of business processes (true workflow of the business class)
Project management and management of labor (not only time but also oversee the planning of working hours for payroll, vacation time and other integrated human resources / workforce-related functions and services) hybrid applications
Accounting systems offering CRM and other enterprise solutions
In general, the hybrids that create large monolithic or none at all do not offer value propositions. With these solutions providers to treat customers as blocking their goal, and only the words to the true object of solutions based on standards that are based on the connection of Web services that allows customers to choose services that best meet their needs. However, the modules of web services oriented hybrid technology that can be rapidly applied in place and offer a convincing alternative to the implementation of models of inheritance.
# 1. Leadership issues
Above all, I think one of the most important lessons of recent years has been the fundamental importance of the leader. No matter who is on the bus, it has great access to technology, the number of best practices that are fully versed in all for nothing if the people leading the organization and the projects lack the knowledge and skills leadership to make the right decisions. An incompetent leader can lead the best team, best technology and the organization with the most abundant resources with the total and shameful failure.
The main reason that we are in the mess we are extremely ignorant of poor leadership in some of the largest public and private institutions throughout the world. We have learned the hard way, that the choice of a bad leader or project manager can be dangerous for us, to our way of life. I believe that in 2009 every one of us, be they executives, members of a board of directors, members of a committee, the voters .... to pay more attention we get from our leaders, our representatives and project managers.
These are my predictions about what they can expect from the project management in 2009. With all the changes in project management web-based, these ten trends for the project should help in the course of business as part of its approach to leap ahead of the competition.
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- Several independent entities merged with larger and more new small businesses with innovative technologies emerged in the scene. Given the poor image of the macro, the amount of M & A and start of activity in this field shows the amount of interest and how much more must be done to improve project management.
- What it does not in demand? Approval of the letter emerged in 2008 and is now the standard way to implement project management software. In fact, the tables have turned. Sellers who offer no solutions to the letter to look out of place and out of touch with the market.
- Management of the project continued to gain credibility as a legitimate profession that is much needed in today s complex project, the labor market realities and regulatory requirements.
- Working distance, virtual offices, work from home, are now almost as accepted as the work of the offices in a growing number of industries and job types. It is now common to find ways to work that account for some work being done from a home office.
The stage is set for some exciting changes in the world of project management. In a series of three, ten discuss possible trends of project management that can be more prominent in 2009.
# 10. The increase of the correlation between the Management and Operational Excellence
I used to be that senior executives of the company as CEO, CFO and board members generally stay away from decisions related to project management. The expectation was that CIO, COO and other executives of the operation to ensure that the company has effective management practices for the projects. In fact, most of the executives in general management of the project as something that the technicians, field-level workers and middle-level managers should be concerned.
In today s highly competitive world map, China wall between the executive and operations has been broken. In 2009, we will continue to see increasing sponsorship, partnership and direct involvement of senior executives in project management initiatives. Top executives have come to appreciate the direct relationship between the processes of effective project management, best practices and tools, and operational excellence. This task is not delegated and is considered a tactic. Senior executives and board members view the project management improvement initiatives as a strategic investment.
# 9. The CFO and Project Manager of Friendship
Increasingly, project-based service-oriented economy has resulted in more complex customer and billing. For the institution of charges, including internal departments have to justify their cost, efficiency and gain business from other entities within the same organization. Accordingly, for the measurement of CFOs project value and the recognition of income under various generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) cost accounting and revenue recognition has become a more normative task of enormous proportions.
The complexity of calculating the value of the project have created unprecedented links between financial executives and project managers who have to work together to produce indisputable value of projects that can withstand the various forms of potential financial and project audits of the a. organization may be subjected Given current trends, the CFO or the project management of the alliance is likely to grow stronger in 2009.
# 8. The Rise of the Project Working
More and more people choose the projects they want to work instead of the company they work for. Similarly, more companies are adopting the model of Hollywood for a greater percentage of its workforce. In this model, a project team met to implement quickly a well-defined objective, the team is just as quickly discharged once the project (the movie) has been completed. This flexibility makes the company and the workforce more agile in a rapidly changing competitive marketplace.
# 7. Dispersed customers, projects and teams to Kill Policy
The world and access to the pool of talent at the global level has significantly changed the internal workings and dynamics of team virtually all organizations. There are many disadvantages of working with remote team members dispersed, most of us are doing today. We tend to be happier, more loyal to the team, learn faster and achieve more when working in a team physically close to each other. In addition, there is less emotional and a political team dispersed, people tend to pay more attention to work, equality of office and his performance ultimately dictates how they are evaluated. S The current dispersion of office equipment are increasingly the policy is undoubtedly in decline.
# 6. Finding talent is much easier
It is much more difficult to find the resources you need at the moment limited to the search for talent in a local market. The global collaboration in Internet technologies have enabled organizations to exploit the large reserves of talent at a distance at very competitive prices. For example, Tenrox, are increasingly taking advantage of specialized programmers working (probably) from their homes in Russia, Eastern Europe and the outsourcing of the stores in India. These resources are not replacing our full time staff to complement our team working on projects on a need basis. Tenrox can be flexible, not more than rent, and yet the project staff quickly when needed. Better collaboration with technology, improving the quality of global resources, and improve our own knowledge of how to handle such projects, this process is becoming much easier and rewarding to implement.
# 5. The changes in emphasis in Project Management for Management Education
The project management discipline has traditionally emphasized the science of project management. Project managers and employees are encouraged to strictly follow the template, guidelines and measures to ensure a project is executed successfully. However, despite the growing number of certified project managers and key project management tools, the projects continue to show high rates of failure, or high rates of disappointment be too late, cost too much, or not fully meet their objectives.
Numerous studies have examined why projects disappoint. Many of these studies generally conclude that a better project management, communication, stakeholder participation and the change has reduced the failure rate of control. However, as books such as built to last (Collins Business; 1 edition, November 2, 2004), while suggesting the best practices and best tools there is nothing more important than picking the most qualified and best fit of resources to implement the project (Jim Collins, who asked the right person on the bus). For the right person in the team makes it easier, in fact, increasingly the implementation process is necessary because the team members very innately know what to do and just do it. As a result, more and more organizations are investing in the documentation of resources, understanding the capacity of its resources and interests, and using more sophisticated workforce planning tools to find the best resources for their projects.
# 4. The uncertainty is the New Normal
The continuing uncertainty that we all see our work, our homes, the economy and the world in the last two years, will be with us for the foreseeable future. The credit crisis, terrorism, climate change, wars will continue and prolonged direct and indirect impact on our lives, our psyche. However, with the man s remarkable ability to adapt to any situation that we are starting to get used to it! When all this war and economic turmoil began, I remember how shocked and surprised me every time you turn on the TV. Now, I do not see so much bad news more predictable, and when I do, I know it's bad .... so it really does not bother me nearly as much as it used to.
# 3. The rapid growth of web services
The business model of almost all large companies are under attack monolithic. The Web has allowed the small, fast-moving, low-cost global competitors to emerge almost overnight. This is especially true in the enterprise software space. Small companies with great expertise in a particular area of the problem are able to build and deliver solutions based on Web services to solve customer pain point in time s a cost factor faster than the ERP / supplier. Never improved collaboration, Web services and integration technologies that this trend will only accelerate in 2009.
# 2. Enterprise Software Technology pollinated gains momentum
Web services and new technologies to create a powerful wave of seemingly perpetual innovation productivity tools. One of the most recent developments are beginning to gain more momentum has been increasing in the software of the hybrid technology. Here are some examples (with varying degrees of success):
ERP offers integration and analysis
Project management vendors to integrate the management capability of business processes (true workflow of the business class)
Project management and management of labor (not only time but also oversee the planning of working hours for payroll, vacation time and other integrated human resources / workforce-related functions and services) hybrid applications
Accounting systems offering CRM and other enterprise solutions
In general, the hybrids that create large monolithic or none at all do not offer value propositions. With these solutions providers to treat customers as blocking their goal, and only the words to the true object of solutions based on standards that are based on the connection of Web services that allows customers to choose services that best meet their needs. However, the modules of web services oriented hybrid technology that can be rapidly applied in place and offer a convincing alternative to the implementation of models of inheritance.
# 1. Leadership issues
Above all, I think one of the most important lessons of recent years has been the fundamental importance of the leader. No matter who is on the bus, it has great access to technology, the number of best practices that are fully versed in all for nothing if the people leading the organization and the projects lack the knowledge and skills leadership to make the right decisions. An incompetent leader can lead the best team, best technology and the organization with the most abundant resources with the total and shameful failure.
The main reason that we are in the mess we are extremely ignorant of poor leadership in some of the largest public and private institutions throughout the world. We have learned the hard way, that the choice of a bad leader or project manager can be dangerous for us, to our way of life. I believe that in 2009 every one of us, be they executives, members of a board of directors, members of a committee, the voters .... to pay more attention we get from our leaders, our representatives and project managers.
These are my predictions about what they can expect from the project management in 2009. With all the changes in project management web-based, these ten trends for the project should help in the course of business as part of its approach to leap ahead of the competition.
