Project outcomes are important to company performances, so you might expect their significance, and assurance of proper governance and management, would receive appropriate recognition in company reports.
Over the past decades, the project management community has become used to understanding how projects work, and how multiple projects can be organised using programme management and/or portfolio management to ensure that beneficial outcomes are achieved for stakeholders.
Accidental project managers can add valuable experience from other roles — but also need the relevant training in their new careers.
It’s not often that a project professional becomes a CEO, so the APM Podcast jumped at the chance to interview Joanna Rowland, former Transformation Director at HMRC, when she became the Chief Executive of animal welfare charity the RSPCA.
Whether you have a formal project management process in place or not in an organisation, but projects are still happening all around.
As we all know, this year has been a difficult one, but considering the challenges we’re facing, there is much to celebrate in the project community.
Change is not just a supporting act to benefits; it is a force in its own right.
Cost containment is the top concern raised in the landmark APM and PwC study.
A rather thrilled person joined a management brief recently.
A couple of years ago the APM Portfolio Management Specific Interest Group (SIG) saw a gap in the market for a practical guide to portfolio management.