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As a profession we remain under pressure to perform.

How can the Legal sector tackle its lagging project management maturity?  That was the challenge posed at APM’s first networking forum for legal project managers.

At tonight’s event, held at BAWA, James Lea looked at how to monitor and control projects and the importance of using the right data.

In the aftermath of the devastation caused by Storm Desmond, Cumbria County Council faced a Herculean task to rebuild its shattered infrastructure, writes David Brown The name Desmond will forever be etched in the memories of the people of Cumbria.

In November 2016, a phenomenal global engineering feat worth billions came to fruition when the New Safe Confinement (NSC) arch was put in place over the site of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.

This year’s Hay Festival will see more than 80,000 visitors descend on the market town of Hay-on-Wye on the Wales-England border for a week and a half, just as spring is swinging into summer.

“The wind never stops in Rosyth; that’s why it’s difficult to build ships here,” says Neil Holm, programme director for the Royal Navy’s newest aircraft carrier, HMS Prince of Wales.

There are a lot of ‘accidental’ project managers in Africa, but they tend to be relatively well educated and remunerated.

Ruth Murray-Webster and Darren Dalcher explain the need to avoid oversimplifying project definitions.

To those outside the world of project management, the phrase ‘iron triangle’ might sound like a reference to a nasty set of traffic lights outside Chipping Norton, or an overly defensive football tactic.