Where there is challenge, there is opportunity — and where there is change, there are projects.
How stakeholders can affect your project Failure to identify the right stakeholder at the right stage of your project and you run the risk of your project failing.
What better way to celebrate International Project Management Day than to write a blog about the future of our profession? Our team at Altus Consulting had the pleasure of joining APM’s SIG Conference in London last month.
Its easy in communications, where were used to short deadlines and a fast pace, to dismiss project management as an unnecessary and delaying step.
Since our article How AI Will Transform Project Management, was published in Harvard Business Review in February, we have seen exponential growth in publications and discussions on this topic that will bring the most significant disruption in our profession since its inception.
2021 was another challenging year for project professionals, who have continued to navigate the complexities and uncertainties of the pandemic along with the teething problems we saw following Brexit.
Transitioning from project to programme management is like stepping from a photograph into a kaleidoscope.
When most people think about project management, they imagine teams, milestones and Gantt charts; not snowstorms, sub-zero temperatures and dragging 100+ kg sledges across the most remote continent on Earth.
Finally, it appears the future of the 2012 Olympic Stadium has been resolved with West Ham United winning out over Tottenham Hotspur’s proposal to knock it down and replace it with a football stadium.
I have been reflecting recently on what makes portfolio management so different from project and programme management… and why I have been surprised that so many people don’t really seem to appreciate this.