APM Blogs

Projects large and small can benefit from clarification of their objectives and the development of a robust framework for making key decisions.

The APM PMO Specific Interest Group (SIG) wanted to discover how people get into a career in project, programme or portfolio management offices (PMOs).

Successful project managers are great at making decisions.

Veterans of the Armed Forces will attest to the fact that serving in the military is ideal preparation to help build the key skills required to successfully tackle the daily challenges of a project manager.

Having worked in project delivery for several years, I was pleased to recently be awarded APM chartered status.

What do you want to do? A question we rarely get asked once we’ve left school or university.

Despite significant advancements in project management theory over the past 50 years, we continue to see projects that are held back by a number of issues, and data seems to be a core part of this.

It is almost inevitable that every project professional, at some point in their career, will face the challenge of dealing with a toxic relationship.

APM’s People Specific Interest Group (SIG) has stakeholder engagement as one of its work streams and, in line with the overall SIG, the Stakeholder Engagement Focus Group (SEFG) is looking to ‘positively disrupt’ the status quo, as it moves discussions forward on relevant topics.

What is project execution?  Getting on with it.