ABSTRACT
As an emerging profession, the field of PM continues to grow, adapt and evolve. PM faces new challenges as the tools, methods and approaches to management that comprise the discipline are applied to different domains, for different ends, in different cultures. This chapter is focused on the discipline of PM and how it has changed and evolved. Whilst initial developments occurred in specific techniques, such as critical path method, there now is a shift towards the use of PM in an enterprise or organisational context. There has also more recently been the incorporation of strategy and management concepts as well as a focus on governance. This chapter challenges researchers and students’ current thinking about Project Management and is intended to broaden their perspectives from the reductionist, tools and techniques-based view of PM as it appears through the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBoK) lens. The desired outcome is that students question the existing PM paradigm and explore new areas of PM practice or application.
