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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).

As project professionals, we are constantly juggling a variety of topics – budgets, timelines, risks, stakeholders… the list goes on.

It’s not every day you get to have a childhood dream come true.

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.

In the first of a series of webinars for APM, independent solicitor-advocate Sarah Schütte shares how important contracts can be in project management, and what to look out for.

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.

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.