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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.

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.