Project Management of the Future: Working on Projects in the Current Field of Tension of Change.

Project management is in a state of upheaval, with entire workflows and processes having been digitalised or moved to virtual space in a very short space of time in recent years. Projects are now largely managed virtually and from the home office, which has massively increased the importance of (virtual) communication. Among other things, this has abruptly changed the demands on project managers, so that the current situation with all its changes goes far beyond the other "usual difficulties" in everyday project work. This study therefore focusses on the following areas: Structural anchoring of project management in companies, Procurement of personnel for project implementation and support, Requirements for future competencies of project managers, and Leadership and goal achievement. To this end, project managers were questioned in a semi-structured interview. By focussing on best practice, the trends for the future in project management are to be derived using the qualitative approach and the current state of the art is to be described. The Covid-19 pandemic has fundamentally changed the world of work - and therefore also project management. Within a very short space of time, there has been a massive shift towards decentralised, virtual workplaces, which has undermined the unwritten law of physical presence on site. This inevitably changed the model of collaboration, which led to significant changes in operational, structural, organisational and personnel processes. These changes, the trends in the emerging orientation of project management and best practice points were the focus and were considered. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]