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Language is important for project managers.

Project professionals all set out to deliver successful projects, but the list of issues derailing projects and programmes outnumbers the digits on our hands.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the project profession, offering tools that streamline workflows, improve decision-making and predict project outcomes and risks with remarkable precision.

The National Trust may be renowned for its army of volunteers, which totals at 44,000, but its approach to the skills and career development of its team of 300 or so project managers is never less than highly professional.

Four thousand weeks.

The Government is at risk of failing to deliver its National Infrastructure Strategy warns the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) and, despite a backdrop of progress, they were right to raise the warning.

Is the question of whether your project is effectively efficient one that you have considered? If the answer is no, you are not alone, but effectiveness and efficiency need to be uppermost in your mind from the inception of your project and throughout its life cycle.

When Kelly Swingler first experienced burnout in 2013 she had no idea she was even feeling stressed.

Have you noticed that 'lessons learned' sessions are often a round of high fives or blame and recrimination at the end of a project, rather than a dynamic tool to build project success? A lessons learned session is when the project team and key stakeholders review what has gone well and poorly in a project, builds a clear understanding of why and uses that to come up with lessons (advice for a similar situation to get an better outcome) and discrete actions (to improve the normal way of doing things).

There are four steps in competence – unconscious incompetence, conscious incompetence, conscious competence and unconscious competence.