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Zak Shayler

Do project management skills really transfer between sectors?

We often hear about transferable skills in project management, but how important are they and can we actually transfer skills between sectors? In March, I started working at Heathrow Airport, tasked with programme management for reopening Terminal 4 ahead of the summer peak.

Chris Blockley Webb Chris Blockley Webb
Chris Blockley-Webb

The humans behind risk management: your worst nightmare is actually your best friend

The introduction to any blog is fraught with risks, which is rather apt! Will you stay, or will you go? Context of what we’re going to be exploring matters, so I’ll set the scene: It’s that time of the month again, the project is chugging along, stakeholders are calm and the plan is full of ticked boxes, but here comes a dark shadow, ready to take over and push the project into darkness; ‘risk’ is reluctantly added to the agenda.

Conrad Heine Conrad Heine
Conrad Heine

What is scope creep and how can we mitigate it?

The term ‘scope creep’ may sound like another innocuous piece of professional jargon, but it has the potential to become the bane of any project professional’s life.