How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors Behind Every Successful Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration

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Those things being said I did spend most of my time reading this book quietly nodding my head in recognition. This episode delves into the findings and analysis of the APM Salary and Market Trends Survey 2021 in more detail, with a focus on salary, job satisfaction, diversity and inclusion, economic confidence and more. Eddie is a Visiting Professor at Henley Business School, an esteemed columnist for Project journal and an APM Honorary Fellow. Bent Flyvbjerg is the ‘megaproject’ expert and Dan Gardner brings the storytelling skills to How Big Things Get Done, with examples ranging from a Jimi Hendrix studio to the Sydney Opera House. The picture that [Flyvbjerg] and Mr Gardner draw of why projects, large and small, tend to go wrong is compelling.

DAN GARDNER is a journalist and the New York Times best-selling author of Risk, Future Babble, and Superforecasting (with Philip E. Finally, here’s a guide to navigating the embarrassingly predictable mistakes we all tend to make when taking on life’s biggest and most important projects. I instinctively used these ideas in the 1990s and early 2000s when my company of 3 people replaced failing ERP systems for Fortune 500 companies. In this episode, Project journal editor Emma De Vita meets Simon Fell, director of events, festivals and leisure at London’s Alexandra Palace (or Ally Pally as you might know it).Emma meets Carmel McConnell MBE – a change activist and keynote speaker at the upcoming APM Conference on 8 June in Birmingham. Saxo må behandle mine personlige oplysninger som beskrevet i Saxos persondatapolitik, herunder i relation til nævnte kommunikations- og medietjenester.

Here is a quick description and cover image of book How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything in Between written by Bent Flyvbjerg which was published in February 7, 2023. In 2022, APM is celebrating its 50th anniversary, so throughout the year we’ll be sitting down with some of the movers and shakers who have shaped the project profession across the last few decades. Luckily, there's a method for breaking down these challenges, no matter what the scale of your project is.He died in 2008, 25 years after it opened, never having set foot in it, to see it with his own eyes. I ended up suing the contractor into bankruptcy then getting the state to convict him of fraud in criminal court. Understanding what distinguishes the triumphs from the failures has been the life’s work of Oxford professor Bent Flyvbjerg, dubbed and “the world’s leading megaproject expert. His deep understanding of why big projects fail—and occasionally succeed—makes this book a truly fascinating read.