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As our grandparents warned us, time flies. I’m finding that they were right, and 20 years have passed in a flash. I sometimes struggle to accept that the first edition of this book was written way back in 2005. As I finish this third edition, it is 2024. The first two editions of the book continued to be popular across almost two decades, but we all, eventually, get long in the tooth. Nowadays, 20 years is a long life for a professional book. I was lucky to have chosen to write a book that described the fundamentals of project management, which remain relatively timeless. The types of projects may have changed, but the best ways to get things done endure. So why the update? The concepts and language of business, organisations and society have moved on. Reading a book written 10 or 20 years ago makes you realise quite how much! A few examples felt dated. More specifically, the progression in thinking has been significant in project management – as typified by the emergence of Agile. What was an emerging approach has now become dominant, and has a new dedicated chapter in this book. Yet, having said all this, at its heart this book remains the same. It presents a simple, robust and proven approach to delivering projects. I have updated terminology, examples and made minor changes throughout the book. There are two more substantial changes. I have significantly enhanced and increased the call out boxes of ‘Key drivers for success’. There were none in the first edition of the book, 11 in the second edition, some of which have been enhanced, and an extra 7 have been added so there are now 18 in total. These are lessons that help apply the step-by-step process without being part of the process itself. They are now a major subtheme of the book and can be referred to as part of the chapter they are in or as standalone lessons. The full list, for future reference, is in Table 1 below.