Note: The original Gantt chart developed by Henry Gantt in 1910 was not the same as the one we use today; it actually showed resources against time (but that’s a topic for another blog post).
Project management certainly doesn’t sound as exciting as building something or going shopping! How do we promote project management to children, and girls in particular? I led a Girlguiding unit for 30 girls aged 10-14 (Guides) in north west London, and one activity we’ve run with different groups is the ‘construction game’.
Remote teams are becoming increasingly important in today’s business environment because they allow companies to tap into a wider pool of professionals, provide their workforce with flexible working options and expand their presence across multiple markets.
With the APM Awards about to take place I wonder how much customer satisfaction plays a role in the selection of the winners.
The current APM Body of Knowledge has more than 250 acronyms listed and if I’ve learnt anything from the profession; it’s that it has an almost endless capacity to invent more.
I’m a kinaesthetic learner, which means I learn by doing and respond to things by how they make me feel.
Just as the function of stakeholder management has been overtaken by the need to secure engaged relations, so too traditional project management planning skills and metrics are not well suited to meet emerging challenges in project delivery.
James Garner is Head of AI and Data at Gleeds, Chair of the Project Data Analytics Task Force and founder of Project Flux, which dives deep into AI’s impact on project delivery.
Deep in the French countryside, 800 miles from where the world’s leaders are gathering to broker a deal on climate change, an experiment called ITER is trying to point the way to a non-carbon future for the world.
Project management consultancy MI-GSO|PCUBED launched a reverse mentoring scheme in the UK in 2022.