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If you’re a project controller, your peers in management will be depending on you for valuable insights so they can deliver projects on time and to budget.

Throughout my career, I’ve volunteered with many organisations and projects.

The link between projects and business strategy, and the idea that project professionals can follow a route into the top of business by becoming a chief project officer, is becoming ever more evident.

The argument for building social value into projects is getting louder.

Someone picking up a textbook for the first time could be forgiven for thinking career success as a project manager rests on the obtainment of professional qualifications and technical knowledge alone.

Making mistakes is an inevitable part of project management.

The backbone of any successful endeavour, good project managers focus on orchestrating the various components of a project with planning and precision.

No project team is an island.

If, like me, you have done an internet search on how to become a project manager, the results will show various university degrees and other full-time education, while all assistant Project Manager vacancies ask for experience or some other formal training.

In writing this article, I found myself asking whether I actually wanted to ‘tackle’ optimism bias.