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Let’s be honest.

For as long as I can remember the reported failure rate for programmes and projects has been stuck at the seventy per cent level.

Part2 of a farce in 6 parts.

Artificial intelligence, robotic process automation, machine learning – these are all terms being bandied about more or less interchangeably when talking about the next level of technology.

As project and programme managers, we are expected to work to recognised processes and we are measured against them.

Often organisational change is guided by reactive initiatives and solutions or wishful visions rather than by a plan based on sound principles.

What do you want to do? A question we rarely get asked once we’ve left school or university.

In my previous post I mentioned that a university education isn't right for everyone and the new Project Management Apprentice scheme now enables young people to embark on the first steps of a career in project management straight after A Levels.

'Never waste a good crisis' said Churchill, allegedly, and there have certainly been no shortages of what the public at least, might consider have qualified as a series of 'once in a generation' crises facing governments over the last few years.

Many complex construction projects suffer setbacks because of unexpected problems that arise during production and installation, and ill-defined requirements upfront.