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The theme of 2025 International Women’s Day is to Accelerate Action for gaining equality.

Personal discipline and organisation are needed when managing your programme through difficult and changing times.

Politics, whether at a national or a team level, has an impact on every project, especially major government ones, but if infighting and manoeuvring are polluting yours, remember: sunlight is the best disinfectant, writes Richard Young More than 30 years ago, Jeffrey Pinto, Professor of Management at The Pennsylvania State University, wrote a paper about the value of politics to project managers.

Engagement helps drive action on projects.

Knowledge management (KM) has been around as a discipline and organisational practice since the 1990s, but is still smothered in confusion.

The number of people who need to be involved in making a decision increases with its criticality.

Building Information Modelling – or BIM – creates a virtual prototype of projects, so everyone has complete visibility of a space, right down to the smallest details.

I have had to remind myself that this current series of blog posts is predominantly aimed at those new to project management.

Often when we talk about employing systems thinking (ST), it’s usually within the confines of a traditional project management methodology (PMM), PRINCE2, Agile, Six-Sigma to name a few.

Project management tech is booming – there has never been more choice in the software available to project managers, all offering the potential to streamline your processes, keep everyone on the same page and make managing a project so much easier.