On the face of it, it would seem that demand for Project Management professionals in the South East has returned to growth, but a detailed look at the underlying figures suggest that compared to earlier this year, demand has dropped back slightly and salaries are still continuing on a downward trend.  Job demand in London is actually below last year’s levels and there are precious few signs that the private sector is keen, or able to take up the slack in advance of public sector cuts. Read the rest of this entry »

In recent years there has been increasing recognition that for projects to be successful they must be soundly based; projects that fail have the seeds of their failure implanted at the outset. In this article I present a framework for understanding the skills managers use to shape sound projects, and conceptualise these skills in terms of the craft of a hypothetical expert individual - the project shaper.

This article summarises the conclusions of a full paper, ‘The Art of Project Shaping’, written with Mark Winter of the Manchester Business School. Read the rest of this entry »