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Many project delivery professionals will have been involved with project, programme, portfolio maturity assessments.

In July, APM’s launched its third Golden Thread report, focusing on sectors where project management skills are increasingly being used to run projects more effectively.

There are many good project management books.

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

Project management is thankfully evolving.

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.

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 construction industry is witnessing a revolutionary change driven by the integration of Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Artificial Intelligence (AI).