APM Blogs

When faced with a messed-up Rubik’s Cube, it can be easy to give up when it seems just too complex to unscramble.

People tend to believe that failure to hit deadlines is mostly caused by unforeseen delays during the project.

The citizens of the UK have voted in a non-binding referendum to leave the EU.

Project management in the heritage sector requires an interesting skillset – one that extends further than the typical toolkit of a project manager with PRINCE2 or similar training to include another set of skills that ensures the conservation of historic buildings is considered, or the heritage of a site / place / collection is understood and managed effectively.

Once the project requirements are understood, quality planning ensures that they will be met.

Sara Ulrich, Resilience and Wargaming Expert at PA Consulting, talks about what project professionals should be doing right now to up project resilience.

Around two-thirds of Britons will make a New Year’s resolution, and the habit is almost as common in other parts of the Western world.

I wonder if this is a problem for your programme? Many projects are proposed for the programme, but less than expected make it through the feasibility and authorisation process, so you've always insufficient projects in the programme to meet the targets you have for service/asset improvement, and the forecasted spend you made!Consequently your programme got off to a slow start, and compromises on project selection later on, as the need for more projects intensifies.

Whether we like it or not, data sits at the heart of everything we do in project management.

Assertiveness is for many project managers the defining characteristic of leadership; to be non-assertive can come off as weakness and indecisiveness.