TwentyEighty Strategy Execution Releases Top 10 Trends for 2017 - Seite 2

The BA and PM Partnership Strengthens
As adaptive strategy execution continues to evolve, the relationship between business analysis and project management will mature into a strong partnership that combines best practices from each of the two disciplines to more effectively achieve organisational alignment.

Renewed Focus on Benefits Management
This year there will be a renewed focus on benefits management as it reinvents itself as a simpler process that is not just reserved for business analysts.

Project Management is for Everyone
Project management used to be a niche profession reserved for a small group of practitioners in distinct industries. As more organisations realise that their strategies are executed through a series of projects, more professionals are seeing the value of acquiring PM skills.

Value is the Buzzword
This year, project practitioners will have renewed focus on identifying and communicating the value – or return on investment – they bring to their organisation.

Accountability Through Coaching
Formal coaching relationships are emerging within project management, as less experienced project managers gain direction and support from more tenured project professionals. Senior project managers are taking time out between project deliveries to dedicate time to a formal leadership and coaching role for more junior members of the organisation.

Co-Location, Distributed Work and the Rise of Collaboration
Organisations are still trying to find the balance between project teams conveniently co-located and those working virtually in global project teams. With team collaboration cited as a must have for successful projects, organisations will spend more time focusing on how to bring teams closer together through web and physical space use.

Agile is not just for IT
Across industries beyond IT, an active migration toward an Agile mindset means that project workers are learning to adjust while projects are in mid-flight, instead of planning the course ahead of time and sticking to the original route.

"Organisations have taken notice that they need to be skilled on a variety of approaches to project-based work," said Wasserman. "While having expertise in different areas is necessary, having a strategic perspective is the bridge or missing piece of the puzzle that unifies everything that we do."

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