That’s the news from ESI International as they share the latest top 10 trends in project management for 2014 . This trend in particular caught my eye: Even with high unemployment globally, key project management jobs will remain hard to fill.” The prediction is that organisations will have a tough time filling some of their key project management positions because of a lack of qualified and available candidates. One message to organisations is focus on retention policies to stop their best talent from walking out of the door and lowering the need to hire.  On the other hand where more project management practitioners are needed to join an organisation the message to individual practitioners is focus on your technical; business and especially your leadership skills. “ It’s never been a better time to be a project manager ,” says J. LeRoy Ward, Executive Vice President of ESI International. A great message to kick off 2014 don’t you think?   The top ten trends for project management in 2014: Agile expands in Singapore, Japan and Hong Kong

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Never Been a Better Time to be a Project Manager