APM Blogs

Agile: It means nimble, fast, adaptable and efficient – all the things a project manager wants his or her teams to be.

It’s time to reappraise what project success looks like so that project professionals can be liberated from a constant fear of failure, urges Andy Murray, Executive Director at the Major Projects Association (MPA).

Whilst Sir Ernest Shackleton wrote to The Times announcing his Imperial Trans Antarctic Expedition—more commonly known as the Endurance expedition— it is the almost certainly fictional advert to recruit a crew that has captured the public imagination in recent years.

The future of project management is likely to demand even greater flexibility, agility and responsiveness.

In an industry like construction, where developers are tasked with implementing large infrastructure projects, people from a wide range of disciplines have to work together to enable delivery.

Ulster University has opened its £350m city centre campus, housing over 15,000 staff and students – the largest city centre campus development in Europe.

I got involved with Glasgow Vintage Vehicle Trust (GVVT) because I’m a bus enthusiast and love all things to do with buses.

The COVID-19 pandemic is one of the most complex global problems facing us today, with considerable impacts on our way of life.

Hang the cost – it's the benefits that really matter When you're at that stage of deciding whether to give a project the green light – or you are assessing a project's progress to decide whether to continue with it – then it's easy to become totally focused on how much the whole thing is costing to the exclusion of other factors.

Tailoring the project management office (PMO) function to the specific needs of a given business, whether explicit or implied, is crucial.