Over the past couple of decades, experience and research have revealed that, without an effective initiation, programmes fail to achieve their goals, often devolving into chaos, leading to budget and schedule overruns.
Clarity is fundamental to being a leader, believes Dave Corbin ChPP, Gleeds’ first ever Chief Project Delivery Officer.
Project Editor Emma De Vita goes backstage at the Royal Ballet and Opera in London to find out what it takes to run a programme of renewal projects that will return London’s prestigious cultural institution to the top of its technical game.
England hosted the 2025 Women’s Rugby World Cup last year.
Amy Leneker gives her hard-won advice on dealing with too much stress the right way By the time stress and burnout took over my life, I couldn’t remember a time when I wasn’t stressed – when there wasn’t a deadline looming, a problem to solve or a decision that couldn’t wait.
Andreas Bang Leed gives five top tips for getting measurement right and avoiding the traps that derail most projects According to Oxford Global Projects’ database of more than 20,000 projects, only 0.
Eddy Datubo FAPM, Director of Transformation at the BBC (and Project Big Interview in our spring 2026 issue), tackled the hot topic of high-performing project teams at the APM Project Management Conference 2026.
Are you the one who brings people together, interprets the bigger context and quietly repairs the fractures that could derail progress? Do you see yourself as someone who cultivates strong relationships, understands the broader organisational landscape and bridges the gaps to keep projects moving? In the age of artificial intelligence (AI), this once invisible work has suddenly become the thing that actually delivers results.
Andrew Saunders investigates how better data and AI literacy can help you see more clearly what’s happening on the ground – and get the bigger strategic view on your projects Credit: Shutterstock The key to success, some say, is to ‘work smarter, not harder’.
It is the so-called soft skill that quietly decides whether projects succeed, writes James Evans Credit: Shuttershock Psychological safety has a strange reputation in projects.