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Most project leaders did not expect to govern artificial intelligence.

Credit: Shuttershock What grassroots football taught me about project management  Steve Law never thought using his professional skills to coach kids’ football teams would give him some of the best training he could have for his day job.

Extroversion can be a powerful asset for project managers, helping them build relationships, spot tensions and keep teams energised under pressure.

Summer is the season when even your inbox seems to take annual leave.

Charles Orton-Jones meets Alex Maidment, an ambitious project manager motivated by a desire to uplift the North who was shortlisted for the APM Emerging Project Professional of the Year Award 2025.

Clarity in project management doesn’t usually show up at the beginning.

At some point in many project management careers, a thought quietly creeps in during a Monday morning meeting, while updating a RAID log for the hundredth time, or somewhere between stakeholder escalations and back-to-back calls: “I think I need a new job.

Will the temptation of artificial intelligence (AI) make us lazy? Before we know it, might our mental muscles atrophy and our ability to think critically diminish until we’ve lost our human edge? It might be an extreme take on the revolution we are living through, but it’s a real concern as we travel further down our collaborative journey with AI.

A £6bn+ bill for cancelled government projects sounds like another public-sector failure.

Programme management has changed.