Dive Brief:

• ESI International, a company that teaches project management, says it sees trends this year in what companies want to do to improve their operations and their competitiveness.
• One trend, ESI says, will be project managers being asked to "lead" teams rather than just "managing" them.
• A trend that sounds like just more of the same is that there will be a shortage of project managers, at least for the key jobs in companies.

Dive Insight:

Another trend is something called a Portfolio Management Professional, a new certification offered by the Project Management Institute focused on having all of a company's projects succeed rather than only some because of limited resources. One question that arises from the shortage of professional project managers is what will happen to project managers' salaries and whether companies will be willing to have them rise faster than overall return.