APM Blogs

In 2016, Shambala became the UK’s first annual greenfield music festival to go meat- and fish-free as part of a broader drive towards sustainability.

The link between projects and business strategy, and the idea that project professionals can follow a route into the top of business by becoming a chief project officer, is becoming ever more evident.

National Apprenticeship Week (NAW) 2018 starts on 5 March.

UK construction is undergoing a period of rapid transformation.

Causing confusion over customersThere is much written about the importance of stakeholder engagement and management, and in most cases it is right failure to engage with just one key stakeholder can undermine even the most well-defined and organised programme.

Achieving excellence in project management adds tremendous advantages to the individuals and the organisation as well as to the clients and stakeholders.

The number of projects undertaken in volatile, uncertain, complex or ambiguous (VUCA) environments is forecast to increase, but standard project management methods are often unsuccessful for these.

We recently launched the first in our Body of Knowledge-inspired book series Engaging stakeholders.

Anyone planning a Christmas get together of chief project officers (CPOs) will have to do a lot of clicking and squinting on LinkedIn to find enough people to fill the dancefloor.

What’s it like to work in project management at the Houses of Commons and the House of Lords? Algy Ayson is Head of Project Delivery, Centre of Excellence and Profession at UK Parliament, working in both chambers on projects that stretch across digital transformation, capital works and change initiatives.