Forces Driving Change
Although new technologies such as the Web, Wireless Access Protocol (WAP), and Java play a part in the need for new project management models, the major forces are not technological. They are:
Driving Force 1—A power shift;
Driving Force 2—The free agent army; and
Driving Force 3—The global e-economy.
Driving Force 1—A Power Shift
Our group first documented this phenomenon more than 10 years ago (see our Web site). The use and abuse of expert power by computer people[2] have resulted in a major shift in the control of Information Technology (IT) and other expert project groups back into the business areas.
[2] Although we focus on computer and IT people here, the same patterns exist for other expert areas such as architecture, ...
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