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We can improve project outcomes by changing our understanding of communication.

Supermarkets place premium goods at eye level, they put sweets and magazines near the checkout counter and use point of sale advertising throughout the store, they offer trial packs and free tastings, they attract us round corners into aisles with goods we don’t need, and they pump the smell of baking bread throughout the store and also into the street.

RICS (Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors) and APM have jointly commissioned a Stakeholder Engagement guidance note on this critical aspect of project management.

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.