Did you know that nearly one million workers in the UK suffer from work-related stress, depression or anxiety? It's not surprising that so many projects fail.
When I was invited to talk at the APM Benefits and Value and Governance SIG Conference on the legacy of the London 2012 Olympic Park, I jumped at the opportunity.
John Elkington coined the phrase “Tripple bottom line” in 1994 to describe a balanced set of objectives between profit, people and the planet for businesses to follow.
”If you can see it, you can be it.
As project delivery professionals we forge and develop relationships across different stakeholder groupings, and even cultures to successfully deliver our outcomes.
Project failure is not an easy subject to think about, but the more we face up to it, the better prepared we will be to succeed.
When I ask a room full of project managers how many have sufficient time and resources for the scope they are being asked to deliver, I’m greeted by a stony silence.
It’s lovely and warm on your summer holiday, the sun upon your face.
Three experienced project professionals at APM’s Change Changes conference gave their hard-won advice on how to manage your stakeholders.
In his 1950 paper ‘Computing Machinery and Intelligence’, the godfather of computer science, Alan Turing, posed the question: can machines think? He cannot possibly have known then how far technology would come in the 70 years that followed.