25 September 2009

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October’s Featured Item at PMI.org/Marketplace

NEW! Project Management Circa 2025
Edited by David I. Cleland, PhD and Bopaya Bidanda, PhD
Project Management Institute, 2009

In the last 50 years, numerous books have addressed project management and its theories, processes and principles across industries, cultures and environments. But little has been published about its future. 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, examining key issues that will affect everyone involved.

For example, how will project managers deal with the tactical and strategic changes that will impact products, services and organizational processes? And what strategies should project managers develop and implement as the technological, economic, political, legal and competitive world changes?

A Forecast for the Profession

Each chapter of Project Management Circa 2025 examines the probable future of project management in a specific industry or environment, grouped into these five parts:

• Part 1 – Examples of 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

The 29 chapters introduce the current state of project management in a specific industry or environment, and then forecast the expected future technological, economic, social, political and competitive character of the profession. Current trends are identified that will likely affect how project management will be practiced. Finally, each author envisions the major characteristics of project management, circa 2025.

Implications for the Present

Project Management Circa 2025 provides the basics about how project management is used in the present and how future organizations will create a new paradigm for it. As readers learn the possible fate of project management, they will also see the likely effects on their own organizations.

Through 15 October 2009,Project Management Circa 2025 is available from PMI.org/Marketplace at the special introductory PMI member price of $31.95.  Regular prices are $39.95 for members, $49.95 for nonmembers. Place your advance order today.