APM Blogs

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

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.

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

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.

Two key messages about benefits management are emergingFirstly there is a direct correlation between effective benefits management and how successful an initiative is.

I recently saw one of those lists that people publish to capture our attention or to make a point.

Based upon my own experience I’m pleased to see that the number of organisations adopting portfolio management, particularly in the public sector, is increasing.

Learning can be a tricky thing no matter what stage we’re at in our career, especially when we have to do this by ourselves.

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.

A moment of professional reckoning When I set out to achieve Chartered Project Professional (ChPP) status through The Association for Project Management (APM), I was not seeking a badge or a credential for its own sake.