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

Those new to project management often worry about which qualifications to seek; which will give them the best opportunity to develop their career or the widest choice of possible industries or the best credentials for working in international organisations, or whatever else is important to them in their careers.

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.

How AI will affect the future of project management was the subject taken to task by Tom Ollerton, founder of Automated Creative, at APM’s Project Management Conference London held in May 2019.