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Developing best practice

The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals aim to ensure “availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all” by 2030.

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Matters of life and death

Projects in Daesh-held territory in Syria are among the high-risk work carried out by ORB International, Richard Young discovers.

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What do we mean by ‘agile’?

Dr Peter Parkes provides a guide to agile project management, and addresses some common misconceptions Many people think of agile as a toolset.

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A blast from the past

Effective collaboration with global teams relies on more than just the latest technological innovations, writes Mike Clayton At the start of the year, I spent many happy hours reading my Christmas present, the magnificent book By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean: The Birth of Eurasia by Barry Cunliffe.

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Rain check

Weather is notoriously hard to predict, but project managers now have a range of cutting-edge services at their disposal, writes Richard Young.

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Surging forward

Project managers must seize the opportunity to lead the way in the development of increasingly crucial surge strategies, writes Dr Mike Waters The world’s major and most challenging incidents – and often those that cause the most misery – are surge events: earthquakes, storm surges, floods, pandemics, sudden mass migrations, mass casualty incidents, and sudden conflagrations like the terrible Grenfell Tower fire.