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Last time, I wrote about the fact that there is a tendency to look for silver bullet solutions to the all too frequent failures of project management.

This is the 4th in a series of posts about the basics of project management for novice project managers.

Agile is here to stay for some it may look like a fad, but there is clear momentum around the need to adopt a more flexible mind-set when initiating innovation projects, especially in IT and fast moving technology-driven markets.

At the APM Conference in April I had the privilege to be able to present on how ethics, and more importantly the management of ethics are becoming a core skill and vital element for today's project and programme managers.

Agile: It means nimble, fast, adaptable and efficient – all the things a project manager wants his or her teams to be.

Bob leaves his house at 10am to go for a walk with his dog, Patch.

Mapping stakeholders has long been a subjective task, but the most widely used power/influence grid has taken precedence for at least two decades, often pigeonholing stakeholders as high priority or low priority for an extended period, regardless of context.

Early in your project, you are probably used to thinking about who your stakeholders are and how you are going to manage them.

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At the start of any project the client will have an idea of what the project is intended to achieve; sometimes the idea is vague, sometimes clearly defined.