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Association for Project Management (APM) has been continuing to engage with students and advisers in schools, colleges and higher education institutions, despite the challenges posed by lockdown.

Knowledge management (KM) is maturing rapidly.

In a certain sense, innovation is at the heart of every project.

It’s making projects betterLeon Hughes, project manager, Taylor Wimpey Juggling family and work is a challenge at the best of times, but COVID-19 has forced us to come together and focus on how we can all support each other.

The Great Escape Programmes, projects and plans abound in one of the all-time war classics.

In this series, project managers tell us how they’re using their skills for a personal project.

Who would have thought at the start of 2020 that Christian Dior would be pumping out hand sanitiser and Chanel medical masks and gowns? That the Royal Mint would be making medical visors or that car manufacturers would be making ventilators? The skill and speed with which organisations and their project managers have adapted and pivoted under extreme pressure has been impressive, from government departments like HMRC and NHSX, with its work on a contact tracing app, to online retailers such as Ocado.

Over the past six months we’ve lived a lifetime of change.

When life is challenging, resilience becomes even more important to our wellbeing as it can help us stay safe, productive and effective.

My relationship with stakeholders, internal and external, is often troublesome.