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In this new series, project managers tell us how they are putting their professional skills to use in a personal project.

Protests by the environmental group Extinction Rebellion across London in April led to more than 1,000 arrests, a stop-off by actress Emma Thompson and an onslaught of headlines that thrust sustainability into the headlines for weeks.

Is your agile actually fragile? There are a few critical rules you need to follow to build a robust digital solution Agile is the big thing in change these days.

  Dealing with really (bloody) difficult people requires a strategic approach.

It’s time for a big conversation about the project profession’s future, says Tim Banfield, chair of APM’s Power of the Profession conference APM’s London conference in May was a stellar reminder of the power of the profession, spanning the top secret, the award-winning and the groundbreaking.

“I’ve been working for a few years with a group of internal stakeholders who have become cynical and negative, probably because of setbacks and bad news we’ve had to deliver to them.

It’s official.

Charlie Griffiths’ day of destiny came just a week into his first role as a project manager.

Where does project management sit in your organisation? In an all-seeing, directive project management office? A branch of the IT department dedicated to ‘change’? Perhaps you’re embedded within operational units, jumping into project work alongside business-as-usual teams.

In a 2019 ranking of the UK’s 50 most powerful flexible workers, there were seven project managers.