15 Points Forum – No 2: Future of Project Management

• Project Management will become more agile driven, more collaborate and more client and customer centred.

• Artificial Intelligence will become more prevalent in the future but it will not render project managers obsolete.

• Artificial Intelligence will help with reporting tasks, actions, administration and note taking.

• The project management field will grow and mature even further.

• The value of project managers for employers will increase.

• Employers will become more knowledgeable on the skills project management can offer them.

• Agile will not fully replace Waterfall (predictive) and hybrid methodologies.

• Project managers will become even more flexible, adaptable and malleable.

• Textbook project management will evolve to match real life project management.

• The role of Project Sponsors will become more important and critical in project delivery.

• Employers & organisations will realise the enhanced importance of project resourcing, fail to prepare, prepare to fail.

• The art of technical business analysis will grow as part of the project team.

• Remote working will aid project delivery further, not hinder it.

• Companies taking short cuts in project management will reduce.

• The realisation that project management is a unique skill will grow further & companies will begin to stop using unskilled and unqualified resources to manage projects.


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