The elusive "paperless office" is a myth, states Scott Nesbitt. In the drive to create a paperless office, we have inevitably made it easier to place your ideas on paper. We can all do our part to reduce the amount of waste generated in this paperless office. Maybe the environment will spare us its wrath.

Whether intentionally or not, project management is doing its part to reduce its paper footprint on society. One of these ways is through a less formal approach to project management. Gone are the days of lengthy policy procedure manuals, guidelines, and life cycle documents. Who has time to read all of that anyway? Welcome, today's charts, graphs, and checklists. What was once told in lengthy tabular form is now summed up in a bar, line, or pie graph. The long-winded paragraphs have been replaced by punchy bullet lists.

The project management benefit is that information is transmitted in more succinct terms. Efficient communication takes the kernel of key information and puts it in an easily-digestible format. What will the trend be like in the next forty years of project management? Subscribe to this blog and we may discover it together.