As a project professional, you can’t expect to be an expert on everything.
The story of the rebuilding of the Parisian landmark Notre-Dame after it was ravaged by fire in 2019 provides lessons In collaboration, determination and using 21st-century tech to keep ancient heritage alive.
It’s time to reappraise what project success looks like so that project professionals can be liberated from a constant fear of failure, urges Andy Murray, Executive Director at the Major Projects Association (MPA).
Project management can sometimes be challenging, but a challenge doesn’t have to end in failure.
As a project professional, you can’t expect to be an expert on everything.
The story of the rebuilding of the Parisian landmark Notre-Dame after it was ravaged by fire in 2019 provides lessons In collaboration, determination and using 21st-century tech to keep ancient heritage alive.
It’s time to reappraise what project success looks like so that project professionals can be liberated from a constant fear of failure, urges Andy Murray, Executive Director at the Major Projects Association (MPA).
Project management can sometimes be challenging, but a challenge doesn’t have to end in failure.
In 1995, Martin Cobb, the CIO of the Secretariat of the Treasury Board of Canada, said: “We know why projects fail, we know how to prevent their failure – so why do they still fail?”
In this 50th anniversary year of APM, BBC presenter Evan Davis was interviewed for APM’s Project for the outside view on all things project, not least how they have the power to transform the social, economic and cultural life of a country.
Could the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao be built partly from the carcasses of decommissioned Soviet submarines? It’s an intriguing possibility that arose after I took a look back at one of the most successful construction projects of the last 50 years for Project journal.
