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Is an Engineering Project Management Degree Worth it? Developing Agile Digital Skills for Future Practice

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  • Dacre, Nicholas
  • Senyo, PK
  • Reynolds, David

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Engineering managers are progressively tasked with leveraging digital technologies and innovations which have yet to be fully developed, to seek out opportunities and challenges in complex project contexts. However, there is a disparity between knowledge gained from engineering development programmes, and the rapidly changing landscape of modern project practice, which requires professionals to effectively engage and deploy relevant agile digital skills in practice. For example, complex engineering projects increasingly employ dynamic digital technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Big Data, Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR / VR), 3D Printing, and Digital Twins, which require managers to quickly adapt to changing constraints through agile digital skills. Therefore, this paper seeks to focus on exploring the role of engineering project management programmes in developing knowledge and agile digital skills relevant for future project practice. Through an outline review of project management development programmes, this research paper suggests that their inherent value for engineering project managers, is largely dependent on a combination of applied research, engagement, and agile digital skills development for future practice.

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  • Dacre, Nicholas & Senyo, PK & Reynolds, David, 2019. "Is an Engineering Project Management Degree Worth it? Developing Agile Digital Skills for Future Practice," SocArXiv 4b2gs_v1, Center for Open Science.
    • Handle: RePEc:osf:socarx:4b2gs_v1
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/4b2gs_v1
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