This year, we’re confident that we’re going call the most impactful project management trends of 2017.

1. Agile project management will gain acceptance outside of software development.

Software development has long been the primary home of agile project management, but we’ve been steadily watching agile leak into industries outside IT. For example, there’s already an agile marketing manifesto, editorial staff often use kanban software to organize articles, and Scrum’s been used in finance for almost a half-decade now.