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Dave Waller

Lessons in sustainability from an APM Award winner

Deep in the lush green countryside of Buckinghamshire’s Colne Valley, APM’s 2023 Sustainability Award winner Jacobs is showing what can happen when large infrastructure projects take nature into consideration.

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Mike Clayton

Are you feeling mature?

Software development, project management, and risk management all have maturity models that set criteria to allow organisations to measure the level of institutionalisation of good practices.

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Anna Etherington-Smith

From dream to reality

Too often in the construction industry, all-important client outcomes are lost in a sea of contractual wrangling that can be conflict-ridden, overwhelmed by complex jargon or disregarded due to the approach of ‘well, it’s always been done this way’.

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David Hamilton

Why is escalation the last resort?

Escalation should never be a threat or a punishment; escalation should be for the benefit of the organisation, says David Hamilton Have you ever looked at a project or a workstream that is not going anywhere and thought to yourself, ‘why hasn’t this been escalated?’ We all know that, sometimes, projects need to be escalated to a senior level to get decisions made or things unblocked.