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Many project delivery professionals will have been involved with project, programme, portfolio maturity assessments.

The one thing we know is consistent about project management is that it delivers a change, but as much as project managers may try, with good planning and execution, many projects don’t come to fruition until customers are happy.

It is well known that we and our project teams need tools to help us keep track of what’s been done, aid decisions and inform our stakeholders.

As the lead of the APM’s Portfolio Management Interest Group, and someone who was heavily involved in the SIG that pre-dated it, I’m thoroughly looking forward to what will be my 6th Conference through all the years.

The construction industry is witnessing a revolutionary change driven by the integration of Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Artificial Intelligence (AI).

In project management, we often see words drift in and become part of our collective vocabulary, as if they’ve always belonged.

The Association for Project Management’s big conversation around the future of work, Projecting the Future, outlines a number of factors reshaping the way that project managers will be working in the coming years.

We're all delighted that the APM has been granted a Royal Charter and that the project management profession can now be recognised on the same level as, say, a chartered accountant or a chartered engineer, with all the discipline and rigour such accreditation entails.

Any project manager will know that managing and motivating a team effectively can be hard work.

Think of the construction industry and you may picture vast entities like Balfour Beatty and Kier Group using their ample muscle and machinery to get things built and expand their sprawling portfolios.