APM Blogs

The summer 2024 edition of Project explores what goes wrong with UK major infrastructure projects.

The motivated team is the more productive team.

Miles Allibone-Dover is an apprentice at National Highways.

“Those who think their achievements can speak for themselves have a noble attitude but tend to be overlooked… If you want to be seen as ready for the next step, you have to make your ambition visible.

“Systems thinking is about understanding that things are dynamic and complicated, and that sets of things are interacting in different ways,” explains Andrew Wright ChPP FAPM, leader of the APM Systems Thinking Interest Network and Managing Partner of Dynamic Technologies.

You have to feel sorry for those poor Apprentices trying their hardest to be project managers under the scrutiny of Lord Sugar and all for the benefit of entertaining the viewing public.

Last week I managed to read the seventh and final paper of the Association for Project Management’s (APM) excellent Projecting the Future thought leadership series, the first of which was published in June 2019.

Did you know that 40% of hiring managers report difficulty finding qualified project managers? Even though APM has seen a 20% rise in project managers over the years, 60% of project managers believe their job descriptions are inaccurate or incomplete.

When I started my degree in chemistry, I never thought I would find myself project managing nuclear decommissioning projects.

With shifting technology and working culture changing the emphasis on the kind of skills needed in the workplace, organisations are creating projects searching for solutions to upskill and retrain their employees so that they’re better placed to take on the changing demands of work.