APM Blogs

When Kelly Swingler first experienced burnout in 2013 she had no idea she was even feeling stressed.

Project management career goals are vital to your progression.

Who could possibly take issue with a word such as ‘collaborate’, which according to my on-line dictionary, denotes ‘the action of working with someone to produce something’? There now appears to be an inextricable drive to collaborate across all organisational sectors, in what has been coined ‘the age of alliances’.

While researching my previous blog on why the ‘why’ of a project often goes missing, it was notable that another ‘P word’, planning, kept coming up.

Having worked in project delivery for several years, I was pleased to recently be awarded APM chartered status.

Language is important for project managers.

There are four steps in competence – unconscious incompetence, conscious incompetence, conscious competence and unconscious competence.

The role of formal project management methodologies is becoming increasingly important outside its traditional industries, namely IT, engineering and the public sector.

‘Grok 4 is the first time, in my experience, that an AI has been able to solve difficult, real-world engineering questions where the answers cannot be found anywhere on the Internet or in books.

Four thousand weeks.