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Project professionals are well-placed to play a leading role in sustainable development and already have many of the skills required.

Building Information Modelling – or BIM – creates a virtual prototype of projects, so everyone has complete visibility of a space, right down to the smallest details.

David Waboso’s inaugural message as APM President gave the project management community a lot to think about, namely that project management is increasingly about more than the rusty iron triangle of time, cost and quality.

APM’s annual conference was a very well-attended and energetic event.

We all know about the statistics around successful project delivery – research by Oxford Said Business school illustrated that  one in 200 major projects delivers within the sanctioned cost, time and benefits envelope.

There’s always a risk when you’re working on projects that you invest the detail of the process with a spurious, level of authority.

Do you know what a project audit is? What is the difference between auditing a project and auditing a programme? Would you know where to start with such an audit?  Audits are a special type of review but for some, the term audit implies a ‘backwards view’; an emphasis on ‘compliance’; a policing activity.

I have had to remind myself that this current series of blog posts is predominantly aimed at those new to project management.

Project management tech is booming – there has never been more choice in the software available to project managers, all offering the potential to streamline your processes, keep everyone on the same page and make managing a project so much easier.

Project and programme management are well understood as a means of delivering effective outputs and outcomes; portfolio management still seems to be challenging organisations in terms of:what it means (its big programme management with prioritisation isn’t it?)its necessity (could you do just the project and programme management maturity assessment please, we don’t do portfolio management here)getting it onto a senior stakeholder agenda (they understand PPM, but what’s the third P for again?)how does it relate to my business; why should I bother? (you mean – I’ll be able to connect all my activity from strategy to delivery and back again??)The APM Portfolio Management SIG will be running an evening event on Tuesday October 1st in London to:Discuss how a portfolio management initiative is different from a project mgt or a programme mgt initiative in terms of getting it off the ground.