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For the Cayman Islands’ 60,000 inhabitants, there is currently no need to wear a mask.

The rapidly changing world that we have encountered since the pandemic demands new ways of thinking about project management.

What effect is digital transformation having on project management practices, methods and skills? This is the subject of current collaborative research between the Advanced Project Management Research Centre and APM.

Traditional project management processes are failing left and right.

There has been much mention of artificial intelligence (AI) in project management circles, but few have defined it and what it can do for the profession.

Project management has traditionally relied on recruits with a background in STEM.

Supermarkets place premium goods at eye level, they put sweets and magazines near the checkout counter and use point of sale advertising throughout the store, they offer trial packs and free tastings, they attract us round corners into aisles with goods we don’t need, and they pump the smell of baking bread throughout the store and also into the street.

Your project plan may make complete sense to you, but how does it look to other stakeholders and what are its chances of working in practice? In my previous blog post, I outlined an approach to planning that focused on communicating the intent behind your plan.

Today John Manzoni, Chief Executive of the Civil Service and Permanent Secretary of the Cabinet Office and Tony Meggs, Chief Executive of the Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA), will give evidence to the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on “Delivering major projects in Government”.

If you don’t put effort into understanding the organisational culture in which you’re trying to deliver a project, you’re asking for problems.