Does the UK have the project management skills needed to deliver major projects successfully? It is a pressing question as we enter 2021 and look ahead to a raft of projects that are set to reshape the UK’s physical and digital infrastructure.
Hosting the Olympics is right up there on the list of global megaprojects in terms of scale, complexity, public attention and expense.
Eighteen months ago the UK Government’s project delivery profession launched its Project Delivery Capability Framework (PDCF).
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.
Hot projects don’t have to be big projects.
People SIG committee member Peter Johnson shared his thoughts on this topic inspired (perhaps not the right word!) by England’s performance in The Ashes.