APM Blogs

The APM vision of a world where all projects succeed is a simple statement.

Project Editor Emma De Vita goes backstage at the Royal Ballet and Opera in London to find out what it takes to run a programme of renewal projects that will return London’s prestigious cultural institution to the top of its technical game  Front of house and back of house present a world of contrasts.

Project managers influence their teams’ culture more than you might think.

What happens when sustainability stops being a headline topic and becomes part of everyday organisational practice? If you have noticed a drop in energy around sustainability, either personally or within your organisation, you are not alone.

Imagine the following scenario: you have delivered the milestone, mitigated almost all risk, been the "glue" that held a fractured team together through a high-stakes delivery phase.

There is one item you will never see on any meeting agenda, yet it has the potential to be the most important factor on your project.

How far up the career ladder do you see yourself going? Is it high enough? Or is it time to revise your ambition level to reach for the executive suite? Project management is a profession that provides an excellent grounding for life at the top of an organisation beyond a project role, whether it’s as a COO, global business development director or CEO.

Coping well and bouncing back from setbacks, failure and difficult conversations is a must-have skill for project professionals.

“Systems thinking is about understanding that things are dynamic and complicated, and that sets of things are interacting in different ways,” explains Andrew Wright ChPP FAPM, leader of the APM Systems Thinking Interest Network and Managing Partner of Dynamic Technologies.

Andreas Bang Leed gives five top tips for getting measurement right and avoiding the traps that derail most projects  According to Oxford Global Projects’ database of more than 20,000 projects, only 0.