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Members of the APM Governance SIG recently held at workshop to assess the performance of the governance and leadership of the Universal Credit programme to date.

Is a quote from the film Top Gun where Tom Cruise plays United States Naval Aviator Lieutenant Pete "Maverick" Mitchell.

On the 20th January 2012 Alastair Smart posted a blog entitled ‘Does Culture Really Matter?’ in which he argues that an understanding of organisation culture is essential for relationship development and project delivery.

Shortly after I became editor of Project magazine, I met with Dennis Hone.

The NHS has delayed the roll out of its data sharing scheme by six months and the reason is all about communication.

Todays world depends on inter-connectivity as were regularly reminded by experts; the ever-advancing progress of technology, alongside population-related pressures on resources and environmental consequences.

Groups and institutions can magnify and accelerate the development of knowledge far beyond what an individual would be capable of.

Like many other early-30’s project and programme management consultancy professionals, I encounter a variety of customers on a regular basis and frequently need to be conscious that ‘first impressions matter’.

During recent weeks, we have been talking about the difference between coaching and mentoring.

The failed BBC Digital Media Initiative (DMI) project and failing Universal Credit project have much in common – both over-bloated, over-long, expensive and with no practical output to show for the effort.