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Welcome to our wrap up of the 5 reasons your project management process isn’t working.

The Association for Project Management London branch and Governance Specific Interest Group (SIG) held an evening event earlier this year to discuss the core issues and competencies at the heart of successful sponsorship of change/projects.

I’m finding a majority of organisations tell me they want ‘resource management’, but when I ask what this means I get really narrow replies.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has opened opportunities for greater predictive and historical insights into existing data.

One of the many advantages of working within a project team is that it offers access to diversity in numerous dimensions.

What are the top five skills wanted by employers? Is it initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling? Or is it creativity, persuasion, collaboration, adaptability and emotional intelligence? One is doing and the other thinking.

Project management is a multifaceted field that requires diverse skills and traits to be successful.

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.

Staff members are increasingly spending time working on project teams rather than in their ‘day job’.

Simply put, psychological safety makes it possible to give tough feedback and have difficult conversations without the need to tiptoe around the truth.