APM Blogs

In my last blog I berated the fact that there is a constant stream of surveys asking for the top reasons why projects fail.

Savvy project managers understand the interplay between the metrics we use on a project and the project environment.

How much in control are you? Do you know the most important things you need to take care of right now? There are many methods and tools for people to get things done, but Kanban is quickly becoming the tool of choice.

I admit it.

In a strange, new world we all live in, we need strong project management skills to help us overcome the issues with change that no one saw coming – especially when it comes to project delivery or event management.

I recently attended an excellent talk on corporate governance given by Philip Graf, chairman of the Gambling Commission and CfBT Education Trust among others, where he addressed the subject of behavioural issues in governance.

In a ‘first of its type’ event for APM, breakfast with 17 industry leaders in the PPM world tested the latest APM research on Conditions for Project Success as a part of our journey to APM’s vision statement: ‘A world in which all projects succeed’.

Every few months the soft versus hard skills debate resurrects in the pages of Project magazine.

Throughout the run up to the spring budget the traditional rumour mill predicting unreserved spending on new legacy projects has been somewhat muted due to the ‘steady as she goes’ approach of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond.

The Core Valley Lines transformation programme by Transport for Wales (TfW) shows what outstanding project management can achieve.