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This article includes excerpts from a recent webinar, delivered to 200 APM members.

Project management career goals are vital to your progression.

It’s been 20 years since the term ‘agile’ first appeared as a set of principles for software development.

As a project professional, it’s vital to continue your learning – the only way we grow is by developing ourselves.

Leadership styles can take many forms.

If you’re reading this, it’s probably because your job is to deliver change.

Fail to plan and you plan to fail.

Nico Vincent was Subsea Project Manager of the Endurance22 expedition.

In 1995, Martin Cobb, the CIO of the Secretariat of the Treasury Board of Canada, said: “We know why projects fail, we know how to prevent their failure – so why do they still fail?” This became known as Cobb’s Paradox, and while we could argue that this absolutist statement is not completely true, there is no doubt that we have a lot of knowledge about how to run projects and more seem to fail than should be the case.

While 2022 has ushered in opportunities to connect with people in person at conferences and meetings, it has also exposed us to tedious presentations, pitches and rambling hosts.