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It’s World Environment Day and it’s high time that project management went green.

The world today is designed in a way that prevents everyone being able to have access.

Earlier this year, Lord Browne of Madingley produced an excellent report entitled: Getting a Grip: How to improve major project execution and control in Government.

So, you’ve heard of project management, the ever-growing profession with over 2 million full time equivalent workers.

As we celebrate Black History Month, it’s crucial to reflect on the importance of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all areas of life, particularly in project management.

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

After a decade on our screens, HBO’s TV powerhouse Game of Thrones (GoT) has come to an end.

If, like me, you have done an internet search on how to become a project manager, the results will show various university degrees and other full-time education, while all assistant Project Manager vacancies ask for experience or some other formal training.

At a recent SIG event a delegate asked the above question, which caused a few head itching moments for us committee members.

‘Agile’, as a collective term for a general iterative approach to projects, and set of methods including Scrum, SAFe and DSDM, is a hot topic for many reasons, some good, others not so good.