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It’s been 20 years since the term ‘agile’ first appeared as a set of principles for software development.

Todays world depends on inter-connectivity as were regularly reminded by experts; the ever-advancing progress of technology, alongside population-related pressures on resources and environmental consequences.

As leaders we are told that to survive, we must now be: entrepreneurial, agile, lean, failing fast, digital by default and expecting to be disrupted.

Project management has traditionally been the preserve of the construction and heavy engineering industries.

Can modular systems drive success in sustainability led projects? I set off to talk to Steve McIntyre, an urban greening pioneer and Principal Consultant at ANS Global, to find out.

While researching my previous blog on why the ‘why’ of a project often goes missing, it was notable that another ‘P word’, planning, kept coming up.

Having worked in project delivery for several years, I was pleased to recently be awarded APM chartered status.

Project management is a profession that many people are interested in but they don’t even know.

When I first considered transitioning into project management, it was both an exciting and daunting prospect — like any career change, but even more so given the technical nature of the field.

The workplace is becoming ‘projectified’.