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Over the past 10 years, change management has boomed in popularity.

Do senior leaders in most organisations today really understand enough about what project management is and, more importantly, the strategic value that project professionals can bring? And, if not, will the profession ever execute a similar trajectory to that taken by its peers in HR and marketing, achieving representation on the executive board? Plans and sprints Neal Misell is Chief Executive, Mission Systems, at British aerospace, defence and nuclear engineering services company Babcock International Group.

Well of course using the "F" swear word is not advised in many environments, and certainly not in everyday conversation! What I'm talking about is a word that is often just as controversial, and in fact many women hesitate to use it even though it's a word that offers a quick shortcut for describing what has been defined elsewhere as "a woman who supports other women".

There are many good project management books.

For Learning at Work Week, we wanted to highlight some of the resources APM provides to help you with your learning development.

As the lead of the APM’s Portfolio Management Interest Group, and someone who was heavily involved in the SIG that pre-dated it, I’m thoroughly looking forward to what will be my 6th Conference through all the years.

The one thing we know is consistent about project management is that it delivers a change, but as much as project managers may try, with good planning and execution, many projects don’t come to fruition until customers are happy.

It is well known that we and our project teams need tools to help us keep track of what’s been done, aid decisions and inform our stakeholders.

The Association for Project Management’s big conversation around the future of work, Projecting the Future, outlines a number of factors reshaping the way that project managers will be working in the coming years.

In project management, we often see words drift in and become part of our collective vocabulary, as if they’ve always belonged.