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This year has seen unprecedented recognition of climate change, clean growth and sustainability.

It has been said that it would be a boring world if we were all the same.

What would you choose to do on a gap year from work? Hit the beach, write a book, learn to sail? How about help plant 90,000 trees? Project Manager Jason Sellars chose the latter when, on a year’s break from managing mega IT projects for the banking and insurance sector in Canada, he helped lead the National Trust’s largest ever tree-planting project at the Wimpole Estate, Cambridgeshire.

Jointly established by Imperial College London and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, the Fleming Initiative brings together scientists, policymakers, clinicians, commercial partners and the public to provide equitable solutions to antimicrobial resistance (AMR) at a global scale.

Agile isn’t a one-size-fits-all solution – and most project professionals already know this.

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.

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