So you've decided you would like to climb aboard the project management ride, and feel that your love for planning, passion for budgeting and the pleasure evoked by telling people what to do will get you climbing the career ladder.
The global mission to get to net zero may be under more strain than before, so how about some inspiration on how to effect change when it comes to sustainability? Below are some insights taken from APM’s Project Summit in autumn 2024 – where senior project experts, leaders and C-suite executives shared ideas on the biggest challenges facing the profession – and recommendations from APM’s Projecting for the Future: Harmonising energy and environment report.
Their winning entry says it all: “The Project Delivery & Improvement (PD&I) PMO operates within the national funding agency, UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).
In the past, we have attempted to keep SIG members up to date on what we are doing through occasional newsletter emails, but with our growing popularity the SIG felt we needed to adopt a more open and flexible method.
The impact of the past 12 months has been challenging for the whole world, but we are now starting to see light at the end of the tunnel and the hope of returning to some form of normality.
When used well, lessons learned can contribute to the overall success of projects by re-using and building on approaches that have worked well and avoiding the repetition of previous mistakes.
APM’s People Specific Interest Group (SIG) has stakeholder engagement as one of its work streams and, in line with the overall SIG, the Stakeholder Engagement Focus Group (SEFG) is looking to ‘positively disrupt’ the status quo, as it moves discussions forward on relevant topics.
Every project has goals and to achieve these goals there are a range of factors that must be taken into consideration.
Poor air quality is described by Public Health England as “the largest environmental risk to public health in the UK”, with long-term exposure to air pollution causing conditions including lung cancer, cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, reducing life expectancy.
I recently facilitated a virtual discussion regarding why we don’t consistently apply good governance principles on projects and programmes.