How To Series by Muriel Barre There is a moment where the dashboard is green, the steering committee is aligned and the plan says “ready”. And yet, something is not. In my experience, change rarely fails because of poor strategy. Nor does it fail because the technical solution was not built. It fails because organisations mistake delivery readiness for adoption readiness. That distinction is subtle. And it is costly. The Readiness Illusion Most readiness assessments focus on

Earlier this year, I received the Autumn issue of Project , the official journal of the Association for Project Management (APM) . Seeing my article, How to Be a Great Project Sponsor , published on pages 49–51 marked an important moment in my professional journey. Not because of the publication alone, but because it represented the culmination of a year spent making project sponsorship more visible, more intentional, and more practical for executives leading change. Projec