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Over time, the concept of Agile delivery has been diluted by a proliferation of buzzwords, antipatterns, miss-selling and bad habits.

Which comes first: the happy team or the high-performing one? For decades, we assumed that hire smart, set key performance indicators (KPIs) and define roles, then performance would follow.

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.

Sharon Davies led the implementation of the MOD project that won APM’s 2025 Transformation Project of the Year Award.

Project managers influence their teams’ culture more than you might think.

Over the past couple of decades, experience and research have revealed that, without an effective initiation, programmes fail to achieve their goals, often devolving into chaos, leading to budget and schedule overruns.

Clarity is fundamental to being a leader, believes Dave Corbin ChPP, Gleeds’ first ever Chief Project Delivery Officer.

Every project manager – especially those who are at an early stage in their career – knows that engaging with stakeholders can be daunting.

Psychological safety in project teams when delivery is on track Psychological safety is easy to claim when things are going well.

I’ve been in environments where everything looked fine until it really wasn’t.