APM South Wales and West of England branch

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Concept to production- The challenges of project management in the RNLI
24/05/2013
The RNLI need several classes of boats, to cover the operating requirement, from the surf zone, right out to 100 miles plus. There are 236 Life Boat Stations, 6 Flood Rescue Teams and 150 Life Guard Stations around UK’s coast line. They work closely with the Coast Guard, who co-ordinate rescues, and effectively have a service level agreement with the Government which includes reaching 90% of casualties out to 10 miles, within 30 mins.
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…ask not what you can do for your committee; but what your committee can do for you…
24/05/2013
It all started at the APM South West & Wales Branch Annual Dinner where for the second year running I had the pleasure of sitting next to Bruce Phillips a member of the SW&WE Branch Committee. After the usual pleasantries I asked the usual question of” How’s the committee work going?” to which Bruce responded with “Well thanks, we have lots of people who want to be on the committee and it is progressing well.”
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2013 AGM nominations for the South Wales and West of England branch
07/05/2013
The following eligible nominations have been received for the 2013 APM South Wales and West of England branch AGM.
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Newcastle hosts APM volunteers’ forum
22/03/2013
Over 70 people gather for the latest APM volunteers’ forum.
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Alternative methods of powering the armed forces
21/03/2013
This well attended event held at BAWA, was presented by Paul Johnson who was programme manager for this challenging and interesting technology demonstration programme. Paul explained that MoD was no different to many organisations, seeking to minimise its dependency on fossil fuels. Today’s battlefield technology requires an ever increasing demand for power, which is normally supplied by generators; which are complex and relatively inefficient. Diesel fuel is expensive, dangerous and costly to transport to the battlefield, especially in remote areas such as Afghanistan.
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Secret World Wildlife Rescue - Looking for PM trustees
27/02/2013
The South Wales and West of England branch has been approached by Mark Rutterford, a trustee of a wildlife charity in Somerset (Secret World Wildlife Rescue) who is currently looking for new trustees with project management expertise to help move the charity forward.
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The future of the project management profession - a webinar by Paul Major
20/02/2013
What is the future of the profession? Where will project managers feature in the future development of our world? Will it challenge you to take your role as a project manager to a different level? Would it make you want to start to take responsibility for delivering sustainable change in your workplace and society as a “ChangeMaker”?
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Projects fail when they lose touch with reality
01/02/2013
Graham Oakes started his presentation with a question: What is failure? There are many examples of failed projects, but few project managers would state on their CVs that they worked on a failed project! Success or failure is dependent on stakeholder perception. The oil industry expects only 1 in 9 test wells to produce commercially viable quantities of oil, i.e. an 88% failure rate, but this is accepted as normal. When building a shop, most people would expect only a 1% failure rate. Graham’s experience of the computer games industry showed
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The lazy project manager
30/01/2013
Even though we are all hardworking project managers, the title of Peter Taylor’s talk about how to be a lazy project manager has considerable appeal. But of course there is more to being a lazy PM than just doing nothing as Peter explained in a very entertaining and humorous presentation. Peter explained that being a lazy PM is about working smarter, not harder, quoting Robert Heinlein “Progress is not made by early risers. It is made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something”.
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Titanic lessons in project leadership
15/01/2013
The Branch was delighted to welcome back Ranjit Sidhu, Director of ChangeQuest, to the South West to take a different look at the Titanic story. Even though the Titanic disaster took place over 100 years ago, it still has many relevant lessons for today’s project managers. In this presentation, Ranjit looked specifically at the people and leadership lessons that can be drawn from the Titanic story. These are key aspects of project management, which have been shown to often prevent the achievement of project goals. Ranjit explained that even one hundred years ago, people were.....
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