The advancement of project management (PM) knowledge and the development of PM capability of people is crucial to the successful delivery of projects. As the overall project-related spending in the EU is assumed to be about € 3.27 trillion per annum there are huge societal and economic challenges of reducing the massive financial and psychological costs of poor project delivery. Especially as about 6% of all projects are believed to be wholly unsuccessful, many of them tax-payer funded.Specifically we are putting building blocks in place to enable PM to respond to the challenges it faces in delivering projects successfully in the 21st century. We are doing this by taking a multi-disciplinary perspective encompassing PM, lean management, psycho-social aspects, innovation and change management.At the end of the Being Lean and Seen project we will have in place a holistic framework to address the challenges of delivering projects successfully in the 21st century.