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Fundamentals of Project Management Neha Tikoo, Lovely Professional University

Notes Unit 11: Future of Project Management-I

CONTENTS
Objectives
Introduction
11.1 Starting with the Pyramids

11.2 Technical versus People Management
11.3 The Implications of Improving Performance
11.4 Craft-work, Brain-work and Leadership
11.5 Thinkers and Feelers
11.6 Summary
11.7 Keywords

11.8 Review Questions
11.9 Further Readings

Objectives

After studying this unit, you will be able to:

Know about the future of project management;
Understand the technical versus people management;
Know about the scope creep and exercise control.

Introduction

The innovations we are likely to see in the theory and practice of project management in the next
ten years? How will efficiency be improved, and what will be the key elements of project
management circa 2000? Will it even exist, or will it be supplanted by some new management
fad?
If we are to gain any insight into the future of project management, it behooves us to examine its
evolution in the past. For while project management as a “profession” with its current
“technology” may be the vogue of the late twentieth century, the problems of managing projects
have been around since ancient history.

11.1 Starting with the Pyramids

We are told that “Although no trustworthy details of the lives of Zoser and Imhotep have come
down, we can be sure that they were able men who worked long and effectively together.
Probably Imhotep was a universal genius like Archimedes and Leonardo da Vinci. Such was his
repute as a physician, architect, writer, statesman, and all-round sage that in later times collections
of wise sayings circulated under his name.”

Example: Some of these problems were encountered in the construction of the earliest
pyramid at Saqqara in Egypt, which was the first stone building of any size to be found in the

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