The practice of project management (PM) has evolved over half a century and permeates all industries, institutions and governments throughout the world. This paper conveys a picture of the state of the art in this management discipline near the end of 2003, and provides some predictions of the direction of its continued evolution over the next five years. Four major subjects are covered:

A global perspective is presented and briefly discussed for several topics under each of these subjects.

 

About the Author Russell D. Archibald , PMP, Fellow PMI and APM/IPMA, M.Sc. has held engineering and executive positions is the defense/aerospace, refinery construction and operations, automotive manufacturing an telecommunications industries. Since 1982, he has consulted in project management to companies and agencies in twelve countries on four continents, and has taught project management principles and practices to thousands of managers and specialists around the world. Web Site: Russell Archibald.

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