As our clients (internal as well as external) recognise that sustainability is an important criterion for every project, the concept of 'green jobs' is at the front of many people’s minds.
Virtual project collaboration occurs when employees and staff work together to complete a common goal while being geographically dispersed.
I did not come into project management through a traditional route; I didn’t go to university - no one in my family has.
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.
The number of people who need to be involved in making a decision increases with its criticality.
Engagement helps drive action on projects.
Personal discipline and organisation are needed when managing your programme through difficult and changing times.
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.
Knowledge management (KM) has been around as a discipline and organisational practice since the 1990s, but is still smothered in confusion.
The theme of 2025 International Women’s Day is to Accelerate Action for gaining equality.