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.
In project management, we often see words drift in and become part of our collective vocabulary, as if they’ve always belonged.
For Learning at Work Week, we wanted to highlight some of the resources APM provides to help you with your learning development.
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.
Professional development of any kind is a journey, and before you commit to going on this journey, you should consider and reflect on your aspirations, your goals and your knowledge.
Any project manager will know that managing and motivating a team effectively can be hard work.
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.
In project management, thorough planning is often heralded as the cornerstone of success.
This new SIG has many challenges, no, lets call them opportunities why not? One of these is the promotion, or rather selling (the value of) portfolio management.
What are the largest challenges organisation face relating to project and portfolio management? The 2016 State of Project Management Survey published by Wellingtone and the APM PMO SIG provides some insight: Poor resource management features in the top 5, with lack of visibility of project status making the top 10 list of challenges.