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Professional Project Management is becoming more pervasive.  Like "Electrification" occurred during the era of proliferation of electricity, "projectization" is occuring throughout the workforce and organizations.  Most of the emphasis I have seen is on professional project management.  However, most people will not be professional project managers, but rather will be team members, support personnel, subject matter experts, department managers, C-level executives, and the like.  This post explores what is being said about this broader workforce in a projectized world.

The essential question is, "What knowledge level about project management do non-project managers need to have in order to function effectively on professionally managed projects?"  One parallel situation over the past 25 years has been the proliferation of computers.  Virtually everyone in the work force has needed to acquire at least a user-level knowledge of computers and a variety of software packages.  This has included understanding the basics of Windows and MS Office, competence in using the internet, and the ability to use a variety of applications.  Similarly, a basic level of knowledge is required to function effectively in a projectized world.  Here are 5 key concepts non-project managers need to be effective in the world of projects: 

1. Recognize that a project has a beginning and an end, with smaller beginnings and ends in between.
2. Understand the difference between a product plan and a project plan.
3. See that all projects need to be, at some level, an implementation related to the overall objectives of the organization.
4. Recognize that projects are budgeted in terms of time, money, and resources, and that they need to achieve objectives within constraints on these resources.
5. Understand what a stakeholder is.

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