Is it Possible to Create the Project Manager’s Manifesto?
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2023-09-04
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PM World Inc.
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Project management development has become increasingly advanced, with many methods, tools, certifications, guidelines and recommendations created to enhance its professional edge. There are some professional organisations like PMI, IPMA, Axelos and many agile project management-related institutions, experienced in project management, who deliver the latest and possibly greatest guidelines and recommendations. Agile Manifesto has presented four key values and twelve principles as mandatory rules for software development projects delivering complex and custom-made software products and services. However, project management rules and values largely depend on the people themselves – project managers, project teams and their organisational context. Each project manager (PM) has different knowledge and experience, a different set of competencies and skills, making them professional, and a different set of values driving them to what is most important in the project management profession. The primary goal of this paper is to respond to the vital question about the possibility of creating the project manager's manifesto and present the individual case study as an example with the guidelines and values representing the most important ones from the perspective of the project manager's professionals. The second goal is to present how the project manager's manifesto can be created from scratch in a given organisational context using elements of the design thinking method. The elements of the design thinking method were applied to gather example case studies. The example of an individual project manager's manifesto is presented as empirical research results. The research results focus on responding to the key title question and a few related ones: What is important to the PM in their project management profession? What is the direction of work for each PM? What are PM's beliefs, and what areas would they like to change? What are the PM's values that are identified in their profession? The results showed it is possible to create the project manager's manifesto from scratch adapted to the specific group of people working together in the project and its organisational context. An example of a case study with applied elements of the design thinking method resulted in an example PM manifesto presenting ten rules and values of the professional project manager. They are related to methods, standards and practices; PM's competencies and experience; the integrity of projects, people, customers, communication and transparency; data-driven decisions; PM's autonomy and project organisation context.
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Paterek, P., Jarocka, K., 2023. Is it Possible to Create the Project Manager’s Manifesto? PM World Journal, Vol. 12, Issue 9. Available online: https://pmworldlibrary.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/pmwj133-Sep2023-Paterek-Jarocka-is-it-possible-to-create-the-project-managers-manifesto.pdf