Beyond a handful of case studies, we don’t know how many nor what type of organisations in the UK are actively using formal benefits and value management methodologies.
This blog series discusses the use of value management to develop and implement business initiatives (programs and projects) that are well aligned with the strategy, deliver benefits and are achievable.
If you’re reading this, you are probably a project professional.
When I embarked on my career, the Spice Girls were taking over the world with Girl Power; girls were outperforming boys in all levels of education*, creating an ‘attainment gender gap’, change was in the air.
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.
Embarking on a new project is much like setting sail on uncharted waters.
The first few hours of Martin Dix’s first day at Satellite Applications Catapult was spent in a kick-off meeting for the first satellite into space as part of the organisation’s In Orbit Demonstration Programme (IOD), which gives start-up the chance to test their ideas in space.
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.
Are we alone amongst Specific Interest Groups (SIGs) in thinking that our subject is the most widely misunderstood in project management? Probably not.