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Wayne George ChPP is the winner of APM’s 2025 Project Professional of the Year Award.

When projects slip behind schedule or budgets balloon, it’s easy to blame the usual suspects: scope creep, contractual wrangles or technical hiccoughs.

Starting your career in project management can be exciting, but when it comes to negotiating your first salary, many young women hesitate.

It’s hard not to open a website, listen to a podcast, or even read a newspaper without someone saying that artificial intelligence (AI) will change the world in ways we can’t imagine.

I’m sure it has happened to most of us: working under a tight project deadline while bureaucracy keeps us busy and makes us feel like we’re not making the best use of our time.

Across every sector I’ve worked in — aviation, rail, highways, technology and digital delivery — one truth has remained: projects rise or fall on alignment.

Why do we persist in making New Year’s resolutions despite knowing that most will likely be ditched? Is it because project professionals just need to have set goals, a tick-list and some defined outcomes in their lives? Perhaps they have more luck in achieving them than most.

Aerospace projects are some of the most challenging out there.

For a long time, science was all about curiosity and working on your own terms.

Once in a while, I pause to take stock of how I arrived where I am today.