APM Blogs

Quantifying the Map ‘A picture is worth a thousand words’.

Gillian Jones-Williams’ mother is a manic-depressive.

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.

BP’s Greater Tortue Ahmeyim (GTA) Phase 1 project off the coast of Africa is a case study in engineering innovation, complex stakeholder management and international collaboration.

Project managers do not spend enough time thinking about the quality or the impact of their decisions and very little training is available.

Recently, I re-watched the original Star Wars trilogy and whilst watching A New Hope, I was struck by the project management failures — in this blog I propose three ways that a project manager could have saved the Death Star.

Despite industry-wide efforts to raise awareness of the ethical and economic benefits of improving equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) for the LGBTQ+ community, and results from a survey that I conducted in 2020, indicates that the population is becoming increasingly diverse, but the workforce of the construction industry has not shifted at the same rate.