APM Blogs

“The only way on earth to influence other people is to talk about what they want and show them how to get it.

Clients are facing increasingly complex conundrums when managing projects and programmes.

Having just finished reading the Association for Project Management’s Projecting the Future research paper, one of its main assertions really resonated with me – that the profession is shifting towards a new type of project management or ‘PM 4.

As we move out of the crisis phase of the coronavirus pandemic and bed into the ‘new normal’, embracing new ways of thinking will lead to better outcomes for people and projects alike.

I worked within Shell projects and engineering for 38 years, managing portfolios locally, regionally and then globally.

On 9th May the APM Governance Interest Network once again put the collective membership’s brain to work to tackle some of the Barriers to Effective Governance raised in the previous webinar back in February: What are the barriers to effective governance? As always, it’s easy to come up with the challenges from experience, and much more difficult to pinpoint what to do about them.

International Women's Day has always been a time for reflection — a moment to look at how far we've come and the battles we still fight every day.

Most of us don't like meetings very much.

Servant leadership is a term we use when a project manager or leader puts the needs of those they are leading before their own.

As a part-time Army Officer and full-time Project Manager, I have spent years juggling the demands of both worlds.