APM Blogs

Our 2016 Young Project Manager of the Year, Midlands, is James Faflik who is a Graduate project manager at Gleeds.

Over half the respondents to the 2019 APM Salary and Marketing Trends survey thought that increasing visibility of the profession in schools, colleges and universities was a helpful approach to encouraging new talent.

 How do you feel when you’re asked to write a business case? If you are like most people, you see it as neither a pleasant, nor a worthwhile task.

The Power of Clarity is one of the most valuable strengths a project manager can possess, the ability to anticipate what’s ahead in a world defined by complexity, competing priorities and constant change.

Since 2019, the project profession has created an additional 190,000 UK full-time equivalent (FTE) jobs.

For our Board meeting in May we were kindly hosted by Thales at one of their offices in Basingstoke.

On the 27th of November, emerging project professional and South West of England and Wales Association of Project Management (APM) network member Marielle Salom spoke at the University of West England to students studying engineering and project management.

In April 2025, I attended a national event focused on how organisations plan to upskill people for greener jobs.

In today's rapidly evolving business landscape, project managers, sponsors and finance officers face an increasingly complex challenge: balancing traditional return on investment (ROI) metrics with broader sustainability goals.

What are the secrets to Ed Mason-Smith’s success? As Director of Project Services at his company CBO, and Chair of APM’s Channel Islands Branch, I asked him how it felt to win the APM award for Chartered Project Professional of the Year? “It feels amazing and pretty insane to have won.