| |AUGUST 20208Consultants ReviewIN MY OPINIONANAVIGATING THE DIGITAL DISRUPTION ­ THE PROJECT MANAGEMENT WAYBy Palash Gupta, Director Engineering, Huawei Technologycceleration of technology and digitization has created a hyper-connected, borderless world with heterogeneous competition killing current & creating unconventional industries. Disruption is the new norm and Program & Project is the best suitable vehicle to ride this wave of change & uncertainty. Environment underscores the need for organizations to consider Project Management as a strategically significant discipline and Project Manager as the bridge between the strategy and reality. Here is my attempt to pick TOP 3 trends for the Digital Project Manager.AI - The Genie in your bottleThere are conflicting emotions around AI; one perceives it as the promise of future, while other is fearful of its impact on our workplaces, society and culture. Let's put things in perspective. The Challenge: Whether, Portfolio business investment decisions to maximize the ROI or project plans for efficient delivery both are based on estimations of cost, risk and potential rewards. Agile frameworks (SAFe) recommend "Lean Portfolio & Project Management" approach with iterative and incremental development; Still most of estimates are "at best intuitions and at worst wild guesses" resulting into "Best case & hope Based" plans. Why? Project interdependencies and external environment results in numerous variables & probabilistic scenarios creating a huge web of "What-IF" conditions. Humans have limited cognitive abilities to Palash has extensive and rich experience of handling Big Platform & Product delivery for mission-critical Enterprise, Network Management & Optical Networks solutionPalash Gupta,Director Engineering
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