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Understanding the learnings from waterfall lessons learned and agile retrospectives.

Project professionals will be at the heart of the transformation to deliver meaningful change and meet the UK’s net zero targets With the headlines dominated by coronavirus throughout 2020, you could be forgiven for thinking that decision makers had taken their eye off the climate change crisis.

To mark LGBT+ (lesbian, gay bisexual, transgender) history month that takes place in February each year, a group of colleagues at Arup, London, decided to get together and put forward ideas, stories and debates to share with the team, throughout the month.

For decades, when taking project briefs, I have been raising the topic of sustainability and enthusiastically recommending that clients build it in.

One of the important skills a project manager needs is being able to lead.

With a significant increase in global teams, it is becoming increasingly important for ambitious project professionals to think about how they would approach managing and leading projects across different countries.

Some years ago, APM used ‘doing the right project’ as one of its themes – which meant knowing exactly what it was you were supposed to be delivering.

Eddie Kilkelly outlines a three-step approach to extending your influence over senior stakeholders Most of us will have experienced the challenges of engaging with multiple stakeholders, identifying them carefully so that when we need support we know precisely who to win over with our compelling arguments.

Pindy Bhullar first heard about Exxpedition – an all-female crew sailing around the world to test the levels of plastics and toxins in the ocean – on BBC Breakfast in 2018.