The 5 Biggest Project Management Trends Shaping 2018 Normally I start off these project management trends pieces with a celebration of what I got right the year prior (all my insights for 2015, 2016, and 2017 are still available), but 2018 is going to be different. What's special about 2018 is not that there's going to be a breakout technology or a sudden surge of government-hired PMPs.