Process or Project Management

Sometimes I get confused. Am I a project manager or a process manager? Do we use processes to lean-out project management? Or do the processes add bloat to project management? Is mature project management process centric or is it achieved with having mature project managers? Does a PMO mature by piling on processes and responsibility or does it mature by growing a team that does the right thing the right way?

I have many... many... years of experience in project, program, process, and people management. I never really spent too much time trying to draw boxes around each role. They blended together in some jobs and were clearly prioritized in others.

I’m sorry that I don’t the answers. I do have opinions and over time I will likely share them here. The one thing I know is as the job market improves for project managers, there will be a lot of turnover as project managers look to answer these questions for themselves.