Why do so many projects fail? There are many individual factors behind failure, but one overarching explanation could be that the ‘why’ of a project – its objective or purpose – simply gets lost in the focus on the ‘what’, ‘how’, ‘how much’, ‘when’ and ‘where’.
After 20 years of delivering public sector projects, now more than ever, a depressingly common theme is emerging, which is that key public sector projects and programmes are failing to deliver.
*Please note, this blog has been updated for 2021* So you've got your A level results.
The term ‘scope creep’ may sound like another innocuous piece of professional jargon, but it has the potential to become the bane of any project professional’s life.
If you’re reading this, you are probably a project professional.
The Golden Thread APM Research Report 2019 indicated that the successful delivery of programmes and projects has a major impact on modern economies, organisations and people’s lives.
Are we alone amongst Specific Interest Groups (SIGs) in thinking that our subject is the most widely misunderstood in project management? Probably not.
For over a decade, the usefulness of gamification and game-based learning for professional training has been hotly debated.
As a project professional, you can benefit from developing yourself further, getting expert advice and finding out about different projects at any stage of your career.
After hosting the final APM face to face conference before the Covid-19 pandemic struck and then the first event when physical attendance events were resumed in early 2022, it’s with some irony that the Programme Management SIG Conference did not stage an event in 2023.