APM Blogs

Remote working brings its own challenges around both communication and technology.

  Project management skills play a crucial role in helping museums and galleries to adapt during the coronavirus outbreak, Elizabeth Oliver learns.

Most major companies, if not all, will have some dimension of internal politics that can impact project managers and the projects they are responsible for.

Research from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) finds that 30% of menopausal women have experienced being unable to go into work because of their symptoms, with only one-quarter feeling able to tell their manager the real reason.

Project managers, along with HR and staff in the finance department, aren't always terribly well served by traditional cybersecurity advice.

Social value can have various meanings for different organisations.

Many have successfully implemented agile styles of working for small teams, but struggle when they encounter corporate governance procedures.

Despite everyone’s best intentions, it is inevitable that project professionals will encounter people they don’t like in the workplace.

David Thomson, APM head of external affairs, offers a view of the Autumn budget:  The famous lines of Tennyson’s Charge of the Light Brigade seem apt for the predicament the Chancellor faced in the run up to this Budget: “Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them Volleyed and thundered; Stormed at with shot and shell, Boldly they rode and well, Into the jaws of Death,  Into the mouth of hell Rode the six hundred” Not just literally from left and right but also from competing views on how to handle finances ahead of Brexit and its impact, as well as wider volleys from different directions on priorities for his (relatively few) spending options.

We all know that having an engaged and effective sponsor is the key success factor to the successful outcome of a project or programme.