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Many of us are familiar with the transformation life cycle exemplified through MSP®.

After a lifetime of exploration and adventure, Sir Ernest Shackleton’s death, on route to Antarctica in January 1922, marked the end of the so-called heroic age of Antarctic exploration.

What are the main challenges for project managers who are looking to step up and engage in a career in programme management? Clearly there are many aspects to this question which depend on the business and environment that project professionals are operating in.

In today's fast-paced business environment, organisations face the constant challenge of balancing change initiatives with business-as-usual (BAU) activities.

If you had told me a few years ago that I’d be swapping out citations and academic journals for stand-up meetings and project dashboards, I might’ve offered you a sympathetic smile and suggested you needed coffee or therapy.

In today’s unprecedented times, almost every organisation undergoes continuous change, whether political, social, economic or environmental.

In The State of the PMO UK survey by Wellingtone and APM PMO SIG [published January 2016], benefits management and realisation was reported to be the hardest part of a PMO structure to successfully embed in an organisation.

For the past eight years on the MSc in Management of Projects at the University of Manchester, we’ve been setting an assignment called the ‘Project Management Video Documentary’.

This year, the Royal Ballet and Opera’s (RBO’s) major Christmas production is Cinderella, and the work being undertaken by the project delivery teams at RBO is making a major contribution to the creation of magical entertainment for our audiences.

This blog is the second and final part of a series on outsourcing in project management.