HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Projects and Initiatives (with bonus article "The Rise of the Chief Project Officer" by Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez)

What the Next Generation of Project Management Will Look Like

by Rachel Longhurst and Woojin Choi

THE FUTURE OF THE PROJECT manager role has been hotly debated as a number of trends shift organizational dynamics:

• Gartner research has found that businesses are increasingly adopting agile development and product management models, with 44% of work now delivered through agile methods and 39% through product models.

• Traditional project management activities, such as validating requirements, maintaining scope, and measuring benefits, have become the domain of autonomous delivery teams (i.e., multidisciplinary teams accountable for business outcomes) such as scrum and fusion teams.

• Moreover, recent technological advancements—most notably, in generative ...