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The hurdles which today’s project managers face are likely to be replaced by new threats over time. For example, when the profession first started to be formalized, the tools weren’t available to facilitate highly virtual projects and hence the advantages and disadvantages of those types of projects weren’t realized. Improvements in virtual reality technologies, near zero communication latency, increased global literary, self-serve professional development and crowdsourcing bec
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