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The reciprocal relationship between a project’s stakeholders and the project team is foundational to a project’s success.

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.

Enabling teams to thrive and create meaningful change through projects is no easy task.

Project management is a profession that appears to stay strong even when the political and economic climate is uncertain.

How big do stakeholders get?  I was personally pleased when I recently worked with a major multi-national organisation that puts sustainability right at the heart of everything it does – including new projects and programmes.

What do the following ideas have in common?InnovationProject entrepreneurshipDealing with time critical projectsRe-discovering the human elementProjects within organisationsBlowback and the unintended consequences of decisionsSelling project management to executivesStakeholder involvementCollective actionSocial change(See answer at the end of the article)Project managers are continuously challenged to deliver more with less whilst improving the track record of project delivery.

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

Project managers today face increasing pressure to deliver not only on scope, time and cost, but also on values.

Not so long ago I was involved in a fairly extensive piece of research (the report eventually ran to over 50,000 words) for the Cabinet Office looking at the case for portfolio management.

While most businesses now have artificial intelligence (AI) policies in place – largely to police quality, enforce ethics or address data protection issues – relatively few are pushing AI’s capabilities in formal project management processes beyond the basics.