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Embarking on a new project is much like setting sail on uncharted waters.

The first few hours of Martin Dix’s first day at Satellite Applications Catapult was spent in a kick-off meeting for the first satellite into space as part of the organisation’s In Orbit Demonstration Programme (IOD), which gives start-up the chance to test their ideas in space.

There is always a risk that a learning and development programme that is not properly planned ends up being a tick-box exercise that adds little or no value for organisations or for people.

Welcome to the latest in a series of blog posts that aim to make the case for applying systems thinking to project management.

The UK defence industry is the essential platform for economic and political stability, contributing to the nation's prosperity and quality of life.

Why do so many projects fail? There are many individual factors behind failure, but one overarching explanation could be that the ‘why’ of a project – its objective or purpose – simply gets lost in the focus on the ‘what’, ‘how’, ‘how much’, ‘when’ and ‘where’.

"Anger and aggression sometimes seem to be protective because they bring energy to bear on a particular situation, but that energy is blind.

If you’re reading this, you are probably a project professional.

Most of the developed world faces an aging population allied to the challenge of constant change from the need to renew, reinvent and reinvest in everything around us.

As a self-confessed ‘project management geek’, I keep an eye on how project management is portrayed on social media.