APM Blogs

Four thousand weeks.

The National Trust may be renowned for its army of volunteers, which totals at 44,000, but its approach to the skills and career development of its team of 300 or so project managers is never less than highly professional.

The Association for Project Management (APM) 2019 award-winners know how to deliver an amazing project.

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

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.

Managing a project can feel like riding a roller-coaster as it responds to unpredictable circumstances and goals.

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.

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