‘Agile’, as a collective term for a general iterative approach to projects, and set of methods including Scrum, SAFe and DSDM, is a hot topic for many reasons, some good, others not so good.
What can be learnt from the programming geeks who adopted the Agile Manifesto and rewrote the rule book on IT project management? The move to being “agile” has up to now been a grassroots movement.
This year’s winners of the APM Project Management Awards demonstrate how it pays to be in the vanguard of change – whether that’s working on projects that will change things for the better or embracing change in the way projects are run.
I work across Mott MacDonald’s infrastructure projects to help make sure they focus on, and deliver for, people.
At a recent SIG event a delegate asked the above question, which caused a few head itching moments for us committee members.
The APM Body of Knowledge defines a programme as: “A group of related projects and change management activities that together achieve beneficial change for an organisation”, and programme management as ‘the coordinated management of projects and change management activities to achieve beneficial change”.
Fail to plan and you plan to fail.
Projects make a real impact to organisations, individuals and society; with project managers and project professionals at the forefront of change.
I have become bilingual.
What does Event ROI mean and why is it important?As project professionals and practitioners we are used to working with stakeholders to plan successful projects.