In an ever evolving and changing climate VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity) is especially important for international projects where a change in policy or legislation, issues with shipping terms and traffic or the crash of a country’s financial system can impact the viability or requirement for a project overnight.
The Hong Kong Development Bureau’s Project Strategy and Governance Office wanted to use their extensive project cashflow records to create useful insights for delivering projects.
If you’re a project controller, your peers in management will be depending on you for valuable insights so they can deliver projects on time and to budget.
Embracing diversity in the workplace is not just a ‘nice to have’ or a box-ticking exercise, it’s essential if we want to build the most successful teams.
There is one way to find out if a project manager is honest – ask them.
The APM Body of Knowledge 7th edition defines quality as “the fitness for purpose or the degree of conformance of the outputs of a process or the process itself to requirements” so to deliver quality one must meet the requirements.
The word ‘hubris’ evokes Greek tragedy and ancient myths of heroes and kings who destroy themselves through pride.
In many organisations there will be a process for that – whatever ‘that’ is.
Before becoming a programme manager, I was a secondary school English teacher.
Any professional role in any workplace requires a particular skill-set and knowledge base – and these are a crucial part of what makes an employee valuable to an employer.