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As one wit once put it, if you steal ideas from only one person, it is called plagiarism.

In an ever evolving and changing climate VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity) is especially important for international projects where a change in policy or legislation, issues with shipping terms and traffic or the crash of a country’s financial system can impact the viability or requirement for a project overnight.

A project professional, who has chosen to remain anonymous, provides an honest account of ‘the state of being not, or no longer, needed or useful’ Day one: Being told COVID-19 has affected my role heavily.

As we begin to transition back to a more normal professional life, it isn’t work as we know it.

The project profession has evolved significantly in recent years with an ever-increasing expansion of tools and techniques, alongside recognition of varying leadership styles.

The festive break is the perfect time to catch up on reading and podcast listening, so I’ve gift-wrapped a selection that you might enjoy, with recommendations from the project community In conversation with APM Podcast If you don’t already listen to APM Podcast, then you’re missing a trick.

Projects are about risk: we engage in risky activities in order to achieve rewards.

Many projects meet their milestones, control their costs and produce the outputs they promised.

Are you looking for new ways in 2018 to push your project management office (PMO) or PM infrastructure over the fence into new service and performance territory? Or are you a project manager looking to up your game and make a bigger difference in your own individual project delivery within the organisation? Or maybe you are a third option – an independent consultant or contractor looking to add value to what you are offering both your client that brought you in to help out or lead and to the project client you are serving (may be a third party or the same client that brought you in as a consultant).

The nuclear industry could be on the cusp of a new age, with renewed interest in its potential role as a low carbon energy source.