APM Blogs

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) account for 99.

Sonia Sharma is setting up Channel 4’s first ever enterprise-wide project management office.

Over the last year, project managers across all industries have seen an increasing demand for support in organising projects and programmes into portfolios, as well as mobilising portfolio management offices.

To remain responsive to challenges faced within today’s uncertain and complex outsourcing ecosystem, government organisations must innovate and evolve their practices to accommodate change, both in terms of technological progress and the knowledge and tools applied to steer such advances.

Procrastination can easily waste great ambition, skills and knowledge; it leads to regrets.

Mapping stakeholders has long been a subjective task, but the most widely used power/influence grid has taken precedence for at least two decades, often pigeonholing stakeholders as high priority or low priority for an extended period, regardless of context.

Richard Young considers the pressures oil companies face as they pivot from black gold to green power.

The annual APM Women in Project Management Conference takes place in just over a month.

There seems to be a common view that project management is very simple – you know where you want to get to, you think you know the intermediate steps, then it’s just a matter of lining up the sequence, drawing up the Gantt chart, nailing the critical path and master budget – and charging ahead! If it really was that simple, there would be no need for APM.

What are the differences between the worlds of change management and project management? What does life look like on either side of the equation, and where do the tensions lie? Kate Ward, Head of Change Management at King’s College London, and veteran project management expert Adrian Dooley give their perspectives – and point out where the common ground lies.