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The introduction to any blog is fraught with risks, which is rather apt! Will you stay, or will you go? Context of what we’re going to be exploring matters, so I’ll set the scene: It’s that time of the month again, the project is chugging along, stakeholders are calm and the plan is full of ticked boxes, but here comes a dark shadow, ready to take over and push the project into darkness; ‘risk’ is reluctantly added to the agenda.

Project managers can benefit enormously from drone technology.

Risk management principles, tools and methodologies are effectively applied in all industries and fields and are integrated parts of the business functions.

Effective project risk management is necessary for a successful project.

It’s not often an economics story makes the headlines but as we start 2022, inflation is a lead news item.

During the heady days of the 1980s the pioneering work of the leaders of an emerging project management profession positioned risk management as a central, if not the central, activity.

Over the last 12 months I’ve seen a distinct shift in the conversations around risk management.

The pandemic has been a rude awakening.

I’m sure that APM members could, and do, argue for many hours about the concept of project success - what it means and whether it’s valid or even useful talk about it.

Let’s start with the most obvious problem with respect to Bridget Jones: if you’re going to keep a detailed record of your project and still manage not to summarise and apply lessons learned, then you really deserve everything you get.