2012 Project Management Trends & Future Possibilities
Technology has forever metamorphosed business climate
. Business dynamics are experiencing a shift lately and a lot new & revised has been introduced in the world of business management systems. Rigorous project planning and programme management were priority agenda while executive collaboration, customized project approaches, innovative project tracking tools, and agile resource management were considered essential factors in driving business ecosystems in the year 2012. A lot that has happened in this year will be utilized as benchmark to ponder over for future analysis.
Agility is in focus like never before and collaboration software seems to be solidifying. Project management systems will predominantly comprise refined project lifecycles, templates, checklists, best practices, lessons learned, estimation techniques, risk registers and the like. Believers are primarily practicing the well known adage what got you here, wont get you there.
Experts predict 2013 to be a hybrid era in the online project management genre; this will comprise agile as well as traditional business methodologies. Portfolio management approach, rationalized project investments via quantifiable business results will proliferate in the coming years.
2012 has seen some good shine in terms of efficiency and agility already. This shall make way for some promising trends in 2013 as well. Lets look around what this year brought our way in terms of potent project management systems:
Collaboration software solutions made essential business tools for team management. Communication and workflow need to be highly efficient in times of aggressive business conditions. Hence, collaboration was seen as central to project &
business management system. Functions such as automatic distribution, version control, and user authentication are considered to be highly productive methods.
Smarter financial investments in projects encouraged coalition between project management and business process management. Project managers were more adaptable to business process management to judge all parameters and construe project investments.
Project planning software became more engaging and highly intuitive. The social media factor still remain absent from the project management system.
Customer centric project management gained momentum and will remain the focal aspect in projects. It is poised to outpace triple constraint namely, scope/time, cost and quality.
New trends in social, mobile, analytics, and cloud were predominant. Project managers found more refined ways to deal with this transition.
Project managers initiated breakdown structures, mini schedules, self reviews and corrective actions. Systematic planning, execution, monitoring, controlling and closure were dealt with proactively.
Single integrated software for all functions such as project planning, document management, issue tracking, risk management, and timesheet tracking. Individual systems fractured processes, further progress and thus were abandoned for platforms that were capable of multitasking.
Be it today or tomorrow, a feature-rich
online project management tool will always be in demand by project managers to plan, track, monitor, analyze and control projects & team. If the interface will be simple & power-packed, it will get all the attention from businesses as well as organizations; if it will be demanding and dumb, it will be surely be let go.
Future of project management systems is bright and the year 2013 will surely bring trends worth noticing.
by: Harmanpreet Singh
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