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Wherever possible in project management, vagueness should be your enemy.

The Confederation of British Industry (CBI), in partnership with Turner & Townsend, have published Programmes with Purpose, delivering success in government’s major projects; a positive take on closing the gaps in existing knowledge and approaches to project delivery.

I started out as an apprentice in the defence electronics industry four days after my 17th birthday.

I have long been a fan of virtual teams and remote project management.

Work continues on the APM Assurance SIG People work stream where we are seeking to examine how behaviours can influence the effectiveness of the assurance process.

We all know that Santa's workshop is one the great project management offices (PMOs).

The pandemic, deadlines, home life, and so much more impacts all of us at various times.

In October last year, Microsoft and Gold partner Wellingtone invited five customers from different sectors/industries for a workshop in London to trial Microsoft Project Online and investigate if this solution helps them to resolve some of the key pain points they are currently facing within their organisations in terms of project and resources management.

We're all familiar with the triple project constraints of time, cost and scope and there's been plenty of debate about whether other constraints should be factored in to the constraint triangle but I'd like to take a step backwards and consider whether "constraint" really is the right description and whether we, as a profession, could better describe how a project is actually constrained and what we really mean by the "triple constraints".

In my last article, will working with agility be the new norm now? I touched on some agile buzzwords.