APM Blogs

Not all projects will be completed successfully.

The ECITB is celebrating the success of ten people from across the engineering construction industry who have just achieved Chartered Project Professional (ChPP) status from the Association for Project Management (APM) while opening applications for next year’s cohort.

The past few months have accelerated tech adoption in project management.

In the last decade, there has been much emphasis on carbon footprint reduction in new infrastructure projects as we need to meet sustainability goals and remain environmentally friendly with minimum carbon emissions.

How our cities will evolve in future is a topic of perennial interest, but it has come particularly to the forefront since the COVID-19 pandemic and the dramatic shift in working patterns that it triggered.

Well, it has been another record year for GCSE pass rates the 23rd straight year in a row! When the decision was taken to merge O Level and CSE systems in 1986, few could have predicted that such consistently high results would follow.

Don’t you love the metaphors that business and management studies comes up with?This is a great one – managing the pipeline – it summons up images of a network of pipes and connections to supply some endpoint in a system.

The world of Agile and Lean thinking, as applied to our profession, has not had much attention from APM, its SIGs etc.

In a crowded project management profession, practitioners are always looking for ways to stand out.

A recent APM Aberdeen Chapter one day conference offering project management professionals the opportunity of Developing your skills for successful projects, suggested that marriage guidance techniques could be of value to project managersA presentation by Raymond Stadnik, from Monitor, was particularly intriguing, because of a suggested approach to whats normally called supply chain management.