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*Update from 2021, the EHT collaboration have a new view of the black hole in polarized light; a great feat for the science community.

Sharing practical tips, personal stories (both good and bad) and new ideas on how women can get ahead in the project profession is what WiPM is all about, and the 2022 conference – the first in-person meet-up for four years – was buzzing with inspiration.

Getting your kick-off right can make all the difference.

Millions wake up to no electricity after power grids are taken offline… Online banking systems crash and customers can’t access money… Drinking water ruled unsafe after water treatment facilities breached…  Such headlines are classic examples of what might happen if the UK’s Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) fails.

As evidenced by the taming of fire, invention of stone then metal tools, up through the Pyramids of Giza through to todays Burj Khalifa and plans to send men and women to Mars, project management has been an inherent part of mankinds evolution.

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

Organisations that fail to bridge the gap between strategy design and value delivery are wasting eye-watering amounts of money on poor project performance.

It has been said that the personality traits of a good senior project manager are similar to those of an entrepreneur.

In the fast-moving business world today, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are turning out to be game-changers in project management.

Knowledge management (KM) is one of those subjects that’s difficult to describe in a single sentence.