Prediction? PAIN.
As the economic picture goes worldwide, doom and gloom are back for another go ’round, offering a Clubber Lang to Rocky Balboa’s hope and optimism. Or so it would seem in Metaphor World.
But what about project management? Is our lot a recession-proof endeavour? We’ve asked that before, and other Benchmark Reports in the woes of previous years suggested even we had a storm to weather.
If the double-dip is truly on the way and you’ve got to get a handle on what it means to you and your co-horts in PPM, Arras People are offering you two options to tackle it all this month:
Take the 2012 Programme and Project Management Census, and give volume to your voice and truth to your views.
- Take (if you’ve not done so already) the 2012 Arras People Programme and Project Management Census, and make your voice heard on the trends in our industry, ranging from remuneration and benefits to job prospects and hiring possibilities to the nature of modern PPM certifications and their worth. The resulting Benchmark Report from the data collected in the Census is a regular hit within the entire PPM domain, but it’s only strong when its practitioners give voice to their experiences.
- Subscribe (if you’ve not done so before) to Project Management Tipoffs, and have this month’s “Project Management Job Market Predictions” issue delivered right to your inbox next Thursday morning.
As Tipoffs did for 2011, this issue continues our recent trend of offering predictions and guestimates for the year ahead, and what we can expect in the programme and project management domain. We’ve turned to a few of last year’s contributors – Pawel Brodzinski, Ron Rosenhead and Todd Williams – to review how last year’s picks went (hint: they’re somewhat pleased with themselves 
) and offering a fresh batch of 2012 prognostications.
Our newest contributor on the prognosticator front is Kate Nelson of Change Guides, LLC, who tackles how we can effectively align our organisational change capabilities with our project management capabilities. It’s well-worth a look!
Our book reviewer this month is Ken Burrell, PMP, who gives us his take on the latest from Peter Taylor, “Leading Sucessful PMOs“, a book that’s generating a great amount of buzz.
And in a nice new, wrinkle, we’ve trolled the social media forums to get predictions from many other project management practitioners and those close to the industry. Forecasts came in from discussion boards on LinkedIn and on Twitter as well. You might find some interesting insight there that you yourself can take with you.
But it’s all for naught if you haven’t subscribed – so do so today!
