What’s your project daemon? In the His Dark Materials trilogy, created by Philip Pullman and recently adapted by the BBC, everyone has an animal counterpart – a connected familiar whose form is fluid while they’re young, but which fixes on a specific creature after puberty that reflects and augments one’s personality.
Before you know it, your week can be consumed by meetings.
The second you walk into work you are met with plenty of distractions – colleagues wanting to chat, clients calling you, emails, meeting invites, etc.
People often ask me how long it takes to form a new habit.
The NHS has taken a bashing when it comes to IT megaprojects, but there are innovative smaller successes that show why placing patients and front-line staff at the centre of a project’s approach pays off.
Work on the renovation of Elizabeth Tower began in 2017 and is due to complete in 2021.
What does it take to put on an art exhibition, from concept to welcoming the public through the gallery doors? Emma De Vita meets the curators and managers at London’s Royal Academy of Arts, Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge and National Galleries Scotland to discover how they mastermind these unique artistic projects Kettle’s Yard: Curating a living artist Kettle’s Yard art gallery in Cambridge is a modern exhibition space, a stone’s throw from the River Cam.
The project management profession is enjoying a buoyant optimism that has been borne out by previous APM research, not least its important Golden Thread research of 2019.
“I tell every candidate I interview that I genuinely and honestly love this job as much after 18 months as on my first day.
The first phase of the UK’s High Speed 2 rail scheme, from London to Birmingham and Crewe, received formal government backing after the Oakervee Review recommended in February that the controversial project should continue “on balance”.
