Project Management Circa 2025

Project Management Circa 2025 provides the basics about how project management is used in the present, and how organizations will create a new state-of-the-art for project management. As readers learn what the future of project management might be, they will also see the likely impact on their own organizations, now and in the future.

For nearly 50 years, numerous books have addressed the management of projects theory, processes and principles across many industries, cultures, and environments. But little has been published about the future of project management. Project Management Circa 2025 fills that void.Drawing on the collective experience of project management leaders from around the world, the book develops and explores scenarios for project management in the year 2025. The authors identify and evaluate the likely future of project management, exploring key issues that will affect everyone involved with project management, from the theorist to the practitioner.The 29 chapters introduce the state of project management in an industry or environment, then forecast the expected future technological, economic, social, political and competitive character of the profession.Each chapter of Project Management Circa 2025 examines the future of project management in a specific industry or environment, grouped into five distinct parts: Part 1 Projects from Geographical and Industry Applications Part 2 Project Management Systems Applications Part 3 Project Management Organizational Applications Part 4 Project Management in Governmental Organizations Part 5 Likely Growth of Project Management