Issue # 2
Milvio DiBartolomeo
OGC Gateway Assurance Expert | Author | Agile, Project, Programme & Portfolio Management and Better Business Cases Specialist
Disruption is here; and project management is not immune. The challenge for project managers, in any industry or sector will be the rise of emerging technologies like cloud solutions, digitisation, Internet of Things (IoT), blockchain, artificial intelligence (AI), 5G mobile internet, automation, robotics and voice-driven project portfolio management software. While PMs today are already experiencing the benefits of technological advancement with improved mobility and smart phone usability, the disruption will come through automated scrutiny and validation including the integration and two flow communication with organisational finance, purchasing and HR solutions to enable a single source of truth.
Online forms and approval pathways will become the norm to replace project documentation relieving PMOs maintaining project templates to focus on value add delivery and capability support services. While predictive analytics and world wide access to empirical data about project failure will notify and show PMs and Project Owners alike detailed and customised information of potential areas of concern ahead of time like a warning light. Project and stage tolerances for time, cost, risk, benefits, quality (criteria) and scope will also be locked with greater onus on the experience of the PM to manage the day-to-day delivery of agreed customer focused products. The arduous task of preparing highlight and dashboard reports will become automated and customisable, generated from available information and evidence, anytime and anywhere - enabling project boards to manage by exception. The challenge for project managers will be their ability to adapt to this new paradigm of progress information accessibility. It will also highlight those power skills that cannot be easily automated such as critical thinking, creativity and emotional intelligence. So the question to project managers, how well are you prepared for the future?
Online forms and approval pathways will become the norm to replace project documentation relieving PMOs maintaining project templates to focus on value add delivery and capability support services. While predictive analytics and world wide access to empirical data about project failure will notify and show PMs and Project Owners alike detailed and customised information of potential areas of concern ahead of time like a warning light. Project and stage tolerances for time, cost, risk, benefits, quality (criteria) and scope will also be locked with greater onus on the experience of the PM to manage the day-to-day delivery of agreed customer focused products. The arduous task of preparing highlight and dashboard reports will become automated and customisable, generated from available information and evidence, anytime and anywhere - enabling project boards to manage by exception. The challenge for project managers will be their ability to adapt to this new paradigm of progress information accessibility. It will also highlight those power skills that cannot be easily automated such as critical thinking, creativity and emotional intelligence. So the question to project managers, how well are you prepared for the future?