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There are innumerable projects across the world that are in need of completion.

Job of the month: Notre Dame “needs an expert project manager” The fire at Notre Dame cathedral in Paris on 15 April resulted in hundreds of millions of euros in donations from the rich and famous towards a restoration fund.

I attended Project Challenge in Birmingham in March.

Why has so much lack of success become tolerated on our projects, and what does that say about our attitude to failure? It’s a provocative question but why is failure tolerated — even expected — on major projects? Damning statistics that show that the majority of projects fail to meet their budgets, timeframes or expectations are shocking to those outside the profession but resignedly accepted by those working on the projects.

At one of the earliest APM Portfolio Management Steering Committee meetings we decided to take our own medicine and adopt project management best practice!We did this by spending some agenda time thinking before doing.

As the well-oiled machinery of the establishment cranks up for action over the next four weeks, it set me wondering about the skills and knowledge needed for success in the hustings, and the skills and knowledge needed for success in government.

Children are our future, we have heard it seen it written and spoken it so many times.

From charity work to microbreweries, project professionals are using their expertise on projects outside of their day jobs to great success.

As the chair of the APM Knowledge SIG, I get to see many project/programme managers who have issues around establishing the differences between data, information and knowledge.

This article is about the new British standard on benefits management: applying benefits management on portfolios, programmes and projects — A guide.