ESI International’s top 10 trends in project management highlight the need for leadership within projects, whether Agile or Waterfall. They also discuss the challenges associated with finding qualified project managers, and finding the right balance of project management approaches in this evolving industry. These top 10 trends in project management were identified by a global panel of ESI senior executives and subject matter experts.

1. Agile expands in Singapore, Japan, and Hong Kong. IT project management professionals in Singapore, Japan, and Hong Kong are aware of Agile but want to know more. There are pockets of practice but many are faced with internal resistance to such a radically different, yet compelling, model. Many practicing project managers and project management office (PMO) heads are trying to thwart Agile implementation by describing it as yet another management fad.

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