APM Blogs

Change is happening, and project managers need to be a part of it.

Learning legacy is a structured approach to the capture and dissemination of lessons, good practice and innovation from major projects, aimed at raising the bar in industry.

For anyone interested in gender equality, APM’s new research report Developing Effective Interventions for Gender Equality in UK Construction Project Organisations, by Sara Hajikazemi, Giorgio Locatelli and Kate Lawrence, is a must-read.

The new, eighth edition of the APM Body of Knowledge (APM BoK) runs to some 350 pages and is described by its Managing Editor, Professor Mike Bourne, as “a compendium of the areas of knowledge that people running projects need to have.

For Sachia Thompson ChPP, project management has always been about more than process or performance metrics – it’s about purpose, she says.

The busyness of a project manager’s day-to-day business means problems are often brushed aside with the hope that they will just disappear – which they rarely do.

Every year numerous surveys tell us the same things that we have been reading for the last 40 years – more projects fail than succeed.

I am sure my experience is familiar: an undergraduate degree followed by roles that provided me with the real-life experience to complement my studies with pragmatism and common sense.

Think about what you love; hedgehogs, standing next to a clean stream, your family and community, the security of having a job – how much do you love it? How would you describe that love, that desire, to someone or to an alien visiting?  Sadly, these ideas aren’t guaranteed anymore.

I had the benefit of a good turnout and an engaged audience at the meeting of the North West Branch this week.