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Sustainable project management is growing. Indeed, there is a clear economic imperative for companies to adopt greener practices, from telecommuting to managing projects almost exclusively paperless. And project managers can play a vital role in demonstrating how even seemingly small actions can make a positive impact difference — on the environment and the bottom line.
When Brad Egeland worked as a project manager on this one major government contract, it sometimes seemed like the only resource planning was to plan to use as much resources as possible — at least when it came to office supplies and travel time. Ten to 20 people shuttled between Iowa and Washington D.C. for status meetings, and 100-plus page status books — multiplied by 30 or more copies — were routine. In one instance, he recalls, the status books alone were so thick they required their own plane ticket.
Flash forward to today and the Las Vegas-based independent IT project management consultant works almost completely paperless; the days of hoping a plane just to deliver a routine status report are behind him.
Every project manager and company can move in a greener direction, Egeland says, from encouraging the fossil-fuel friendly practice of telecommuting to managing projects almost exclusively electronically and remotely, ideas he recently detailed for PMtips.net.
 "All status reports, project plan updates, status meeting notes, issues/risks lists, etc.
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