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Three things every successful project management office (PMO) manager should know: 1.

It’s International Project Management Day, and project success is worth celebrating, no matter the methodology we use to get there.

Last month, Planisware had the pleasure of exhibiting at the APM Conference 2024, a premier event in the project management calendar.

What are the secrets to Ed Mason-Smith’s success? As Director of Project Services at his company CBO, and Chair of APM’s Channel Islands Branch, I asked him how it felt to win the APM award for Chartered Project Professional of the Year? “It feels amazing and pretty insane to have won.

“You must network” is a message that we all hear all the time.

We all know project management is increasingly becoming recognised as a professional role across a wide range of industries and sectors.

Cost containment is the top concern raised in the landmark APM and PwC study.

Over the past decades, the project management community has become used to understanding how projects work, and how multiple projects can be organised using programme management and/or portfolio management to ensure that beneficial outcomes are achieved for stakeholders.

On the 20th January 2012 Alastair Smart posted a blog entitled ‘Does Culture Really Matter?’ in which he argues that an understanding of organisation culture is essential for relationship development and project delivery.

APM’s Project Management Conference Manchester saw the start of something that I hope will prove to be pivotal in the evolution of our profession.