{"id":418,"date":"2012-03-29T12:56:41","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T12:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.binfire.com\/?p=418"},"modified":"2026-01-04T16:04:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T16:04:41","slug":"project-management-trends-iv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.binfire.com\/blog\/project-management-trends-iv\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Management Trends -PM Role"},"content":{"rendered":"

The PM Role is changing and is changing fast. Project managers need to sharpen their tools and learn new competencies.<\/span><\/p>\n

PM Role<\/span><\/h2>\n

The need for efficiency and doing more with less is also driving the convergence of Project Management and Business Analyst roles.<\/span><\/p>\n

For example, who should gather requirements?\u00a0 The project manager\u00a0or business analyst?\u00a0 The answer emerges with Agile & Lean practices<\/a> overtaking the traditional project management practices.<\/span><\/p>\n

The emergence Agile project management method is \u00a0huge shift in what traditionally was considered the project manager’s job function.<\/span><\/p>\n

As each company and project determines what is the best fit for them.\u00a0\u00a0 Some will require specialists and others will leverage generalists to lead the way.<\/span><\/p>\n

Just look at Product Managers who have been able to lead the entire System development Life Cycle or SDLC from market research, requirement definition to development onto product launch for years because they have the bigger picture in mind.<\/span><\/p>\n

The need for Project managers\u00a0to be more of a Product Owner that owns the definition and delivery of the solution will continue to emerge.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ryan Martens, founder and CTO of Rally Software, says that in the future will see a\u00a0 “continued move of Project Management professionals from the role of Project Management to Release, Scrum or Product Management”\u00a0 and with it the “continued evolution of the Program Management office (PMO) into a Scrum of Scrums office”.<\/span><\/p>\n

PM’s that can step back to see the bigger picture by<\/span><\/p>\n