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People adjust the truth to suit themselves and thus serve their own interests: more power, more income, more respect.

First, a little background to put you in the picture.

The blame game poisons projects.

✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ The author is described as “the global champion of project management”, and his CV shows involvement at international megaproject level and links to academia and industry bodies to support this claim.

In November 2019, TSB, one of the UK’s largest banks, published an independent review of its problematic 2018 migration to a new IT platform.

What’s your project daemon? In the His Dark Materials trilogy, created by Philip Pullman and recently adapted by the BBC, everyone has an animal counterpart – a connected familiar whose form is fluid while they’re young, but which fixes on a specific creature after puberty that reflects and augments one’s personality.

Before you know it, your week can be consumed by meetings.

The second you walk into work you are met with plenty of distractions – colleagues wanting to chat, clients calling you, emails, meeting invites, etc.

People often ask me how long it takes to form a new habit.

The NHS has taken a bashing when it comes to IT megaprojects, but there are innovative smaller successes that show why placing patients and front-line staff at the centre of a project’s approach pays off.