Posts tagged as "PM knowledge"
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.
Don’t tell me how it’s done, just show me the results
Bridging the gap between knowledge and practice as viewed by practitioners and senior management
By Prof. Ajay Parasrampuria
Global standards and methodologies for project management are gaining recognition in the Indian corporate world. This is based partly on assumptions of a mutually informing relationship between standards and effective performance. But there are several obstacles—both practical and ideological—that is holding back progress on the adaptation of these standards. For example, there is no research or data that supports this assumption about standards and performance and many practitioners have started questioning the link.
