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My last two blogs have spoken about neurodiversity in project management and labels.

As I wrote in the first part of this article, if you’re looking to bolster your profile in 2022, chartership is a great option.

As lockdowns continue to ease and we see some sort of 2019 normality, we look back at how tech changed the way we worked over the last few years.

As project professionals we are often (usually) very busy working on projects and I often found myself thinking what more can I do for the profession? One answer was to volunteer.

We all know about the statistics around successful project delivery – research by Oxford Said Business school illustrated that  one in 200 major projects delivers within the sanctioned cost, time and benefits envelope.

The National Audit Office (NAO) has released its latest report on the restoration and renewal of the Palace of Westminster.

Nowadays, social media seems to be a dominant way to communicate.

Depending on where in the world you are, which sector or role you are in, or even the type of organisation, the skills needed to effectively operate in your project’s environment can be far-ranging.

As project managers, one thing we all know is that communication is the key to following a project plan through to a successful outcome.

Why do so many projects fail? There are many individual factors behind failure, but one overarching explanation could be that the ‘why’ of a project – its objective or purpose – simply gets lost in the focus on the ‘what’, ‘how’, ‘how much’, ‘when’ and ‘where’.