The Evolution of Project Management
By Sandro Azzopardi
Importance of Project Management is an important topic because all organisations, be they small or large, at one time or other, are involved in implementing new undertakings. These undertakings may be diverse, such as, the development of a new product or service; theestablishment of a new production line in a manufacturing enterprise; a public relationspromotion campaign; or a major building programme. Whilst the 1980's were about quality and the 1990's were all about globalisation, the 2000's are about velocity. That is, to keep ahead of their competitors, organisations are continually faced with the development of complex products, services and processes with very short time-to-market windows combined with the need for cross-functional expertise. In this scenario, project management becomes a very important and powerful tool in the hands of organisations that understand its use and have the competencies to apply it.
The development of project management capabilities in organisations, simultaneously with the application of information management systems, allow enterprise teams to work in partnership in defining plans and managing take-to-market projects by synch
項目管理的演變
桑德羅阿澤帕迪
項目管理的重要性，是一個重要的課題，因為所有的組織，無論是或大或小，在同一時間或其他參與實施新的事業(yè)。這些事業(yè)可能是多種多樣的，例如，開發(fā)一個新產(chǎn)品或服務(wù)；建立一個新的生產(chǎn)線；在制造企業(yè)公共關(guān)系推廣活動或重大建設(shè)方案。
80年代有關(guān)質(zhì)量； 90年代關(guān)于全球化，二十一世紀(jì)關(guān)于速度。也就是說，要保持領(lǐng)先其競爭對手，組織不斷面臨發(fā)展復(fù)雜的產(chǎn)品，服務(wù)和進(jìn)程在很短的時間與市場的窗口相結(jié)合還有跨職能專業(yè)知識的需要。在這種情況下，項目管理成為在了解它的使用者手中的非常重要和強(qiáng)大的工具。在組織發(fā)展中的項目管理能力，同時與信息管理系統(tǒng)的應(yīng)用，使企業(yè)團(tuán)隊工作定義計劃和管理團(tuán)隊同步?？紤]到市場項目的合作伙伴面向的任務(wù)，時間安排和資源分配。這允許跨職能團(tuán)隊創(chuàng)建和共享項目信息。然而，這是不夠的，信息管理系統(tǒng)有可能使項目管理者根據(jù)地方環(huán)境采取實時管理方案。在當(dāng)?shù)?，由于這種潛在的項目管理能力，使國家或分散在全球各地的用戶能夠同時查看