PM Network magazine is the monthly publication of the Project Management Institute, or PMI. Its circulation is somewhere above 320,000 – and rising.
This month, they published their Fourth Annual “Trend Report”. These trends, says the article, are “forcing companies to look at projects in radical and revolutionary ways”. In fact, the subtitle of the cover story is, “The trends jolting the new business landscape”.
There are 5 trends identified and two of them fall squarely right here – at the intersection of green and project management.
The trends are:
- The New New World Order
- Practical Innovation
- Truly Sustainable Sustainability
- Complete Connectivity
- Perpetually Lean
Strangely, zebra boots are missing from the list. But we got your attention, so they served their purpose.
The two trends we’re talking about as being here at EarthPM, you can probably guess, are Truly Sustainable Sustainability and Perpetually Lean. In fact, these are two major threaded themes of our upcoming book.
In fact, really these two trends summarize EarthPM’s First Assertion: “A project run with green intent is the right thing to do, but it also will help the project team do things right.”
One could also argue that the other three are aspects of green PM, and in fact themes from the areas of the flattened world, innovation in process and product, and improvements in the way project teams can connect also are woven into our book.
So, we feel a sort of affirmation in seeing that our book has, for the lack of other words, a certain trendiness to it. We’re honest, we don’t mind being a little trendy.
Have a look at the new PM Network magazine, linked here.
Green on the horizon
In the current issue of PM Network, PMI’s monthly magazine, page 30 starts a feature story called “On The Horizon – what lies ahead for the project management profession?”, by Sandra A. Swanson.
In the story, key project managers predict what will shape the future of the profession.
Three items are mentioned.
Guess what’ s listed first, in terms of shaping the future of Project Management?
Well, here’s a hint: the title is “Green Branches Out“, and it mentions “a greater sense of urgency to sustainability efforts”. Later in the same issue, in an article about China’s adopting and inventing new project managemet practices, “accountability on high” is featured – and in that section, there is mention of “embedding sustainability into project management“.
Everyone agrees, right?
Apparently not.
We direct you to this discussion at LinkedIn’s PMI Credentialed PMPs Group.
Here the entire idea as to whether PM needs to have anything to do with ‘green’ is called into question. And it is a valid question. We obviously have our opinion. But we’d like to have you jump in with yours so that it is a ‘spirited discussion’.
Please, drop into the discussion and let us know whether you see green on the horizon, or if we should see green on the horizon.
Thanks.