APM Blogs

They say that "a journey of 1,000 miles starts with a single step".

The project profession has a problem.

After nearly seven years in project management, I realised I’d hit that moment.

I started my career in the NHS as a Medical Receptionist about 19 years ago in a GP surgery – a role quite removed from the PMO Officer’s one I have now.

The current COVID-19 pandemic lockdown has provided an unprecedented opportunity for many project professionals to pause, recharge, reset and plan for a new uncertain post-pandemic world.

A real-time taste of massive disruption and the accelerated adoption of virtual technology could be a boon for today’s project management students.

Summer 2020, it’s quite a time to be reflecting on our profession.

Elemental Water Makers’ projects rest on one simple deliverable: clean water produced from the sea.

“I get told what my people think I want to hear” sighed the chief executive of a major organisation to me.

I learnt early on in my career that if you want to change something, measuring it is a sure fire way to get results and a good tool to see the impacts of action in a quantifiable way.