How do you undertake a multi-million pound project to replace a key piece of safety infrastructure involving extremely high-pressure water, running under a key arterial road and railway to the capital city, for one of the busiest airport hubs in the world? Vicky Ye, Project Delivery Manager at Heathrow Airport, was responsible for leading the 2022 APM Overall Project of the Year.
Scientists have long known that our bodies are coded with billions of letters of DNA, but for decades the details of that coding remained a puzzle.
Do you know what a project audit is? What is the difference between auditing a project and auditing a programme? Would you know where to start with such an audit? Audits are a special type of review but for some, the term audit implies a ‘backwards view’; an emphasis on ‘compliance’; a policing activity.
We know that 65% of all megaprojects fail.
Storytelling is one of those overlooked skills that not many people spend time to develop.
We spoke to project professionals who changed careers and entered the project profession after working in a different industry.
For a feature in the spring 2023 issue of Project journal, I asked several interviewees who are in ‘mid-career’, roughly aged 35 to 50, what their priorities are.
Spoiler alert: I’m about to reveal a trick question I use at the start of many of the workshops I facilitate with project teams.
Leadership is a challenging space to get right no matter what role you are fulfilling.
Do you confuse change management for stakeholder engagement and communications? If so, you’re not alone, many project managers do.