Dayner ProudfootThursday, February 16, 2012 - 13:01
David Ackland, Head of the PPM Profession at the Home Office, emphasises the importance of monitoring projects and engaging the client.During an interview at the APM Project Management Conference in October David describes the role of the Major Projects Authority, a body set up by the Government to monitor major projects. David said: “The MPA will ensure interventions are made where necessary. If things do go wrong they are not allowed to drift. Decisions are taken quickly and either something is stopped or it is supported so it becomes successful.”Watch the full interview where David...
The APM Project Management Conference 2012, being held on Wednesday 27th June, will be investigating and celebrating project management as The Art of the Possible.Projects and programmes, by their very nature, deliver that which has yet to be proven possible – a new and innovative design, an upgraded or more reliable product or service, a more efficient way of working, a programme of transformational change, or a record breaking building.Each project has different stakeholders, expectations, issues, risks, opportunities, challenges and outputs making achievement a triumph in the art...
National Audit Office director Tim Banfield feels that project managers should look at the outcome they are trying to achieve and ensure they produce benefit instead of just delivering on time, cost and quality.During an interview at the APM Project Management Conference in October Tim said: “Project managers tend to think about success in their own terms, not in the terms of the people who have got to use what they produce.”Watch the full interview where Tim mentions that project managers should get to a point of “no regrets” which may lead to the project being more successful.Tim spoke at...
Scott WalkinshawThursday, December 1, 2011 - 14:25
When Mike Nichols revealed the association’s vision for the profession as creating a world in which all projects succeed it’s fair to say that there were a few raised eyebrows. You only have to look through the popular press to see the catalogue of reported projects and programme failures to realise the scale of the challenge. Well, nobody said it would be easy. But, consider, then, Cobb’s paradox – 'We know why projects fail; we know how to prevent their failure – so why do they still fail?' or Sir Peter Gershon’s assertion at the APM Conference in 2010 that projects continue to fail...
Dayner ProudfootTuesday, November 29, 2011 - 15:38
You have a chance to hear from a selection of key speakers from this year’s APM Project Management Conference held in London last month by watching a selection of video interviews.APM took time out from a very successful and productive event by interviewing some of the profession’s most senior figures at the new world, new project management themed conference, where they discussed the challenges that face project and programme mangers now and in the future.APM spoke to Professor Eddie Obeng (pictured), who won the Sir Monty Finniston lifetime achievement award at the APM Awards dinner,...
Dayner ProudfootTuesday, November 29, 2011 - 15:11
Professor Darren Dalcher, Director and Founder of the National Centre for Project Management, chaired the APM Project Management Conference 2011 and puts the “new world, new project management” conference theme into context. Professor Eddie Obeng, Founder and Learning Director at Pentacle, discusses his presentation on the “new world” at the APM Project Management Conference 2011 and how project managers can handle the big challenge of dealing with change. Michel Thiry, Managing Partner at Valense Ltd, discusses his presentation on “new project management” at the APM Project...
Alistair GodboldTuesday, November 15, 2011 - 14:44
It has been a busy time over the last few weeks with the APM: conferences, awards, elections, forums, AGMs and board meetings.In line with good practice our elections for the board are run by the Electoral Reform Society, this has the advantage that not only are they independent, but they are run by people who are expert in this. Congratulations to those people you have elected to the board: Mary McKinlay, John Gordon, Jonathan Simcock and Charles Egbu. So a thank you from me for those members and fellows that voted, and a please remember to vote next time as it is your APM.I was...
The APM Governance Specific Interest Group (SIG) launched the 2nd edition of the Directing Change: A Guide to Governance of Project Management at the recent APM Conference. Following the success of the first edition, where over 60,000 copies are in use, the second edition will look to influence directors and others with corporate governance roles to adopt optimal practices regarding the governance of programme and project management activities. This involves aligning the interests of directors, programme and project teams and wider stakeholders.David Shannon, chairman of the APM Governance...
We've really got to stand up and shout when we get things right.In a rallying cry to project professionals up and down the land, leading lights from across the profession called on APM Conference delegates to celebrate the very best of British project management.Speaking at the event in London last week, Jeremy Beeton, Government Olympic Executive, said:“I don’t think we talk positively enough about the good stuff that goes on in the world.“As a group we can be more positive and talk it up and appreciate the value that we, as a group of project professionals, deliver to the UK economy.”The £...
Writing in the latest issue of Project, portfolio and benefits expert Stephen Jenner said the profession was still someway short of meeting the ‘Gershon challenge’ and projects were still failing for the same boringly repetitive reasons as a result.Sir Peter Gershon, from the government’s Efficiency Reform Group, challenged the profession to stand up and be counted at last year’s APM Conference, reasoning that projects should fail for novel reasons only.However, 12 months on, Jenner makes the point that the ‘knowing-doing’ gap still shows no sign of narrowing. “The solution isn’t acquiring...
