APM Blogs

The APM vision of a world where all projects succeed is a simple statement.

Some situations call for stubborn and rigid resource, customer and project management.

Every year project management surveys tell us the same things we’ve been reading for the last 20 years – namely that more projects fail than succeed.

There is a growing recognition at senior management levels of the value that the application of programme management can generate and its impact on the achievement of an organisation’s strategy and the associated delivery of benefits.

Project outcomes are important to company performances, so you might expect their significance, and assurance of proper governance and management, would receive appropriate recognition in company reports.

To mark World Environment Day today, Richard Samworth says simple nudges or changes to the way we work can transform sustainability in projects.

Knowledge workers are often the core of your organisation.

Accidental project managers can add valuable experience from other roles — but also need the relevant training in their new careers.

As a society and as a profession we now face a different set of challenges – whether it’s preparing for Brexit, reacting to the rapidly changing world order and its consequences, or the march of new technology and its implications, or indeed many other challenges of the modern era.

Starter packs pay.