APM Blogs

The concept of net zero has become familiar in discussions about the climate change crisis.

We all know the importance of diversity and inclusion (D&I) in both projects and the wider world of work.

When Dawn Mahan was a girl, growing up in the US, her father would come home from working on the railway, dirty and exhausted, and she would guide him through the house to the couch, so he could lie down.

Competence, not qualifications, should be the most important priority when training project managers.

What makes a project manager’s role so valuable is that they provide ownership for successful results linked to change.

We’ve all told white lies or ‘stretched the truth’ to suit our needs, but are we lying more now than we used to? You might think so – or perhaps, with the rise of fake news, we have simply become more aware of the lies we are.

If there’s one skill that will benefit your career, it’s data literacy.

I had the pleasure of attending a workshop last week on behalf of APM to discuss how PRINCE2 and other 'swirl logo' products can be developed to help professionalise the global project management community.

Doesnt a year go by fast? We are already coming up to the APM conference and nominations are being taken for the APM Awards (deadline 27th June 2013).

What does it take to develop the next generation of project manager? In the last decade or so, have we placed too much emphasis on academia, as opposed to good old-fashioned on-the-job work experience?I recently interviewed Sir John Armitt, the chairman of the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA), who argued just that.