APM Blogs

Fourteen years ago, Steve Jenner and Craig Kilford wrote Management of Portfolios for the OGC/Axelos.

One of the beauties of project management is that, over time, seasoned professionals start to see patterns and rhythms occurring in projects that, on the face of it, don’t resemble one another.

For 18 years, I worked as a teacher.

Chiropractors, taxi drivers, the Marylebone Cricket Club and internal auditors.

Did you start the year with resolutions that have been forgotten about? We begin with the best intentions but alas, it’s April and I’ve barely walked outside let alone run.

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’.

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.

What is nuclear energy?  Nuclear energy is produced through a process called nuclear fission, where the nucleus of an atom, typically uranium or plutonium, is split to release a large amount of heat.

It’s been 20 years since the term ‘agile’ first appeared as a set of principles for software development.

Whenever I used to hear legacies I used to think of Victorian novels with gifts, endowments or inheritances being misplaced or misunderstood.