Stretching Your Project Management Muscles

Business success requires innovation and adaptation, and technology approaches are evolving to keep pace, employing flexible concepts such as service-oriented architecture (SOA) and Agile development methodologies. But, if your project management function is not increasing its flexibility alongside business and technology evolution, your organization is not as effective as it could be. By implementing some of our innovative directives as part of your project management approach, you can help your project management function to better support business transformation. Begin increasing your project management function's flexibility by: 1) adding flexibility to your methodologies; 2) allowing for project customization; 3) re-evaluating project success metrics; 4) promoting adaptive leadership; and 5) embracing continuous transformation.