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Future of Project Management
The future is big
The term ‘project management’ is only a few decades old. Of course many projects were managed before this science was ‘invented’, and nobody had identified a distinctive need for a management process, still less had they decided what that process should be.
Fact is there were more projects managed before modern ‘Project Management’ was developed than have been managed since. And even today, there are more projects being managed with no help from this science than with it. It could be said, therefore, that its influence up to now has been very small but its potential influence in the future is huge.
Who is afraid of project management
I often find myself reflecting on the difference between people who meet abstract academic requirements for a PM career and the real world contenders that one encounters on live project environments on client sites. What comes to notice first is the skewed preference that organizations maintain for certified professionals. On the other hand, I discern unvoiced fears and unconscious fantasies related to a project management career.
The crisis in Project Management
We live and work in a country which enjoys the third largest PMI membership. Coming right after the United States and Canada, we are part of a national community with seven chapters and more than 12,500 members. The total number of estimated PMP certified project managers in India is 16,000.
