Houston, We Had a Problem: Lessons from the Edge of Collapse

In the world of project management, success is often celebrated, but it’s failure that truly teaches us the most. This webinar was hosted by the Scotland Network on 13 November 2025.

Whether it’s missed deadlines, scope creep, budget overruns, or stakeholder misalignment, every failed project carries valuable insights that can strengthen our future delivery.

This session was designed not to dwell on setbacks, but to unpack them, objectively and constructively. We explored real-world examples, identified common root causes, and discussed practical strategies to turn failure into a foundation for growth. Because as experienced professionals, we know that resilience, reflection, and continuous improvement are at the heart of project excellence.

Speaker: Eddyson Ofem, Project Management Consultant Linkedin 

Eddyson Ofem is a Fellow of Association for Project Management, holds an M. Eng in Environmental Engineering and MSc in Project Management from the University of Aberdeen and at the verge of completing his PhD.

He has 27 years’  experience at the upstream sector of the oil and gas industry working  globally with Sam Parca, Baker Hughes, GE Oil and Gas, Survitec, Aker  Solutions, Dril-Quip (Europe) UK and Vetco Gray UK.  He has consulted with Seaquest Energy on LWIS contracting lease to IOC (Intrepid Offshore Construction) for well access operation on NPDC field Nigeria.

His passion is to maximise benefit realisation on projects.

Additionally, Eddyson has 5 years Higher Education experience with the Universities of Strathclyde and Stirling.

Eddyson is currently a Project Management Consultant and is on the cusp of piloting the model developed on his PhD thesis.

Eddyson has very kindly allowed his presented material to be made available for viewing. The slides on Slideshare and the webinar recording on Vimeo is now available in our APM resources area.

We hope you find them useful.