Cancelled, in limbo or BAU? How lockdown is affecting your projects

Published on June 1, 2020

Cancelled, in limbo or BAU? How lockdown is affecting your projects

As the world grapples with lockdown measures, Richard Young asks project professionals how their projects have been affected – and what their path back to ‘normality’ might be

It’s not just employees who’ve been put on furlough. Many projects that rely on in-person activities are also on ice. But how exactly have project managers been suspending their work? What are they doing while things have slowed to a crawl? And how do they plan to spin things back up once the severest measures of lockdown are eased?

Different types of project will face different hurdles. The software development project professionals we heard from, for example, were largely getting on with business-as-usual.Read more

 

Posted by Richard Young on 1st Jun 2020

About the Author

Richard Young is the consulting editor of Project. 
Project is the official journal of the Association for Project Management (APM).

 

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