Mark Rowland unpicks the findings on technology and skills revealed in APM’s flagship annual salary survey The role of the project manager is changing, and the profession knows it.
In the middle of some internal training recently here at the Met Office on benefits in the portfolio, programme and project (P3M) process, we got onto a discussion on change and transformational activity, and how difficult it can sometimes be to alter engrained culture and convention.
The recent APM Conditions for Project Success survey gleaned some interesting insights into the current state of project management in the UK.
Ladies and gentlemen, please fasten your seatbelts.
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.
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.
Another GCSE results day has come and gone.
As a Knowledge Management (KM) practitioner, I am frequently frustrated by project managers who tell me that KM is all about writing things down in lessons learned databases.
If you have not yet submitted your project management awards entry, then consider this.