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The Management of Portfolios (MoP) guidance has been in the public domain for quite a while now, and before that, it was available in draft form.

The annual Wellingtone and APM Project Management Office Specific Interest Group State of Project Management survey shows that approximately 85 per cent of project organisations have a project management office (PMO) of one type or another.

The RAAC crisis is a case study in failure to plan for the long-term implications of project decisions.

Climate change is one of the biggest challenges facing mankind, but what is the profession of project management doing about it? There are important exceptions but by and large the profession is fairly quiet on the subject.

In this blog post, the third in a series of four dealing with what to include in the seventh edition of the APM Body of Knowledge, the question is: ‘What shall we do about PMOs?’ One aspect of this question relates to what the ‘P’ stands for – project management office, programme management office, portfolio management office – all three? The question also relates to how APM Body of Knowledge 7 deals with specialist roles that are often part of a project management office, e.

Data centres are the engines that are propelling our economic activity.

Project management plays a crucial role in the success of non-profit organisations, helping them achieve their missions and maximise their impact.

This is the 4th in a series of posts about the basics of project management for novice project managers.

Following on from our previous blog on why assurance matters more than ever for project success… A question we’re often asked is how to get started and introduce project assurance management practices into an organisation, which has previously no experience of this, in order to develop traction and understanding.

We are frequently asked this question, often with the added comment “I organised my wedding brilliantly…I’d be a great project manager”, or “I’m really organised so I must be a good project manager”Organising yourself or an event certainly sounds like good foundations.