A paper presented to the Project Management Symposium on PM: Project Manager Role Evolution, Rome, Italy, 2004.

Updated 7/3/04

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Published here October 2004.

PART 3 | Introduction | Project Management in the Next Five Years
Project Management Maturity Models | Project Management Around the World
Acknowledgement | References

Introduction

The practice of project management 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 in 2004, and provides some predictions of the direction of its continued evolution over the next five years.

Four major subjects are covered as follows:

A global perspective is presented and various topics discussed under each.

This is fourth of the four parts that discusses:

PART 3  PART 3

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